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B-408535 1 (2013-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpvj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Star Food Service, Inc. File: B-408535 Date: November 1,2013 John C. Mitchell, Jr., for the protester. Katherine B. McCulloch, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a solicitation for various chicken parts improperly bundles or consolidates requirements in violation of the Small Business Act is denied, where the requirements consolidated under this procurement do not violate the terms of the Act--i.e., the requirements were not previously provided under separate, smaller contracts that were suitable for award to small business concerns. DECISION Star Food Service, Inc., of Hollywood, South Carolina, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM300-13-R-0014 issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under commercial acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 for chicken products. Star argues that the RFP unreasonably bundles or consolidates requirements in violation of the Small Business Act and the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA). We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND Since 1993, DLA has obtained and distributed food items to U.S. forces and non-military customers outside the continental United States (OCONUS) through its Prime Vendor program. Under this program, prime vendors have contracts for specific regions, where the prime vendors are responsible for obtaining food products from subcontractors and distributing it to various locations throughout the region. DLA currently obtains chicken parts under 13 separate regional prime vendor contracts. Agency Report (AR) at 2. Prime vendors purchase chicken parts

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