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B-416530 1 (2018-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we D ecision Iare therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: CWIS, LLC File: B-416530 Date: September 14, 2018 Rene B. Ugarte, Esq., and Andrew Newell, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe PC, for the protester. Les Sternberg, for P.K. Management Group, Inc., the intervenor. Audrey Roh, Esq., and Julie K. Cannatti, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly awarded a sole-source contract to provide property management services is denied where the record shows that the agency's justification that unusual and compelling urgency required obtaining services from the contractor that was able to begin full performance at the end of the previous contract, without a transition period, was reasonable. DECISION CWIS, LCC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the issuance of a sole-source purchase order to P.K. Management Group, Inc. (PKMG), of Doral, Florida, under sole- source justification No. JOFOC1 818, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for a 12-month contract to provide field service management (FSM) services1 for properties in Illinois (identified by the agency as area 3A). CWIS argues that HUD lacked a valid basis to award a sole-source contract on the basis of unusual and compelling urgency, and that the urgent circumstances were invalidated by the agency's lack of reasonable planning. 1 HUD explains that the services primarily involve inspecting properties, securing them, performing cosmetic repairs and enhancements, remedying health and safety issues, and generally ensuring that each property is ready to show to prospective purchasers. Agency Report (AR) at 2.

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