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B-405505 1 (2011-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoiq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AL G A 0 Comptroller General Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: XTec, Inc. File: B-405505 Date: November 8, 2011 Daniel S. Koch, Esq., and Kevin K. D'Anna, Esq., Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenberg, Eig & Cooper, Chartered, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Puja Satiani, Esq., and James G. Peyster, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the intervenor. John E. Cornell, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency's justification for noncompetitive issuance of a task order because it was logical follow-on to a task order previously issued to a firm under a Federal Supply Schedule contract pursuant to the prior version of Federal Acquisition Regulation § 8.405-6(a)(1)(C) was reasonably based on documented concerns regarding disruption, duplication of costs, transition delays, and increased costs and was therefore in the interest of economy and efficiency, as required by the current version of the FAR. DECISION XTec, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to HP Enterprise Services, LLC (HPES), of Herndon, Virginia, by the General Services Administration (GSA) as a logical follow-on to a task order previously issued to HPES, under a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, for a shared service solution for an end-to- end contractor managed system to issue and maintain common identification cards for government employees and contractors. XTec argues that the agency's limited source justification lacked a reasonable basis and resulted from an improper lack of advance planning. We deny the protest in part.

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