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B-276960 1 (1997-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: DLS Services, Inc. File: B-276960 Date: May 20, 1997 William H. Carroll, Esq., Dykema Gossett, for the protester. Thomas A. Darner, Esq., and Maria S. Kavouras, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Adam Vodraska, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The General Accounting Office will not consider a protest challenging the substitution of one section 8(a) concern for another as the designee for a sole source contract award under the SBA's section 8(a) set-aside program. DECISION DLS Services, Inc., protests the substitution of Harombee Enterprises for DLS as the section 8(a) concern designated for a noncompetitive contract award under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program pursuant to solicitation No. PB-CI-97-10203, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for janitorial services at the agency's laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We dismiss the protest. The protester, the incumbent 8(a) contractor, contends that EPA improperly requested that SBA rescind its initial designation of DLS for award of the follow-on contract after EPA and DLS were unable to reach agreement on price during contract negotiations. EPA explains that the impasse was reached after DLS failed to provide requested information justifying its price, specifically, information which substantiated why subcontracted work, direct labor costs, and other portions of its proposal were significantly higher than the costs under its previous contract. Because DLS's previous contract had expired and DLS refused to provide further services by purchase order, EPA states than it was left with little choice but to ask SBA to designate another 8(a) concern for the contract. SBA, which was involved in the negotiations, agreed to do so and withdrew its designation of DLS for the contract and designated Harombee instead. EPA then ended its negotiations with DLS, and,

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