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B-410187.2 1 (2014-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqtr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Edmond Scientific Company File: B-410187.2 Date: December 1,2014 Ron R. Hutchinson, Esq., Doyle & Bachman LLP, for the protester. Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Frank A. March, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST GAO lacks jurisdiction to hear protest of task order solicitation where independent government estimate of task order's value, exclusive of the value of option to extend services, is below $10 million and solicitation does not provide for evaluation of option to extend services. DECISION Edmond Scientific Company (Edmond), of Chantilly, Virginia protests the decision by the Department of the Army, Medical Research Acquisition Activity, not to set aside for small businesses a task order proposal request (TOPR) No. TOPR 14MC22318, issued under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for a variety of business-process and other support services. The protester argues that the Army's decision not to reserve this task order for small business participation lacked a reasonable basis, was an abuse of discretion, and violated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 19.502-2(b), the so-called Rule of Two. 1 We dismiss the protest because it is not within our jurisdiction. 1 The facts alleged and arguments raised by this protest are virtually identical to those denied by our Office in Edmond Scientific Co., B-410179, B-410179.2, Nov. 12, 2014, 2014 CPD T 336.

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