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B-409613,B-409613.2 1 (2014-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Jacqueline R. Sims, dba JRS Staffing Services File: B-409613; B-409613.2 Date: June 16, 2014 Jacqueline R. Sims for the protester. Pawandeep Chatha, Esq., and William D. Robinson, Esq., Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Kathleen A. Gilhooly, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of an agency's determination not to set a procurement aside for small business concerns is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research and the procurement history of the prior requirement that it could not reasonably expect to receive quotations from at least two responsible small businesses at fair market prices. 2. Protest that a solicitation did not state the relative importance of evaluation factors is denied where the solicitation was issued under the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 which does not require procurements conducted as simplified acquisitions to state the relative importance of the evaluation factors. 3. Protest challenging the inclusion in a solicitation of certain standard Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses is denied where the FAR requires the inclusion of these clauses in procurements exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold and the agency estimated that the solicitation would exceed that threshold. DECISION Jacqueline R. Sims, dba JRS Staffing Services, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, a small business concern, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. P03031300070, issued by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for parenting program services at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Edgefield, South Carolina. JRS contends that the RFQ should have been set

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