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B-408202 1 (2013-07-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadppx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * IntegrIty * ReiiabiI y of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: JRS Staffing Services File: B-408202 Date: July 16, 2013 Jacqueline Sims, for the protester. William Robinson, Esq., and Oleta Vassilopoulos, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an agency is issuing a requirements contract, the agency may properly expect the vendor to incur start-up costs before a task order is issued even though the requirements contract does not include a guaranteed minimum. DECISION JRS Staffing Services, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. P05151300011, issued by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, for educational services for inmates at the federal correctional institute and federal prison camp in Texarkana, Texas. We deny the protest. The RFQ contemplates the award of an indefinite-delivery requirements contract for educational services, with a base year and four option years, under which the agency will order services through the issuance of task orders. The RFQ requires the vendor to provide five categories of instructors (Spanish GED instructor, parenting instructor, testing services coordinator, library technician, and lab monitor), and includes an estimate of the number of hours that each instructor will be needed. RFQ at 7. For each category of instructor, vendors are to quote a fixed price per hour (session), which is to include all costs associated with providing the instructor. Id. at 5. The solicitation provides that each instructor will be required to obtain a security clearance. RFQ at 9. As amended, the solicitation further provides that

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