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B-278850 1 (1998-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Ervin and Associates, Inc. File: B-278850 Date: March 23, 1998 John J. Ervin for the protester. Michael J. Farley, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that task order improperly exceeds the scope of the contract originally awarded is sustained; while the types of accounting support services required under the contract and the task order are quite similar, the scope of services under the contract is reasonably limited to serving the purpose for which the contract was awarded, which was distinctly different from the purpose for which the task order was issued. DECISION Ervin and Associates, Inc. protests the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) decision to issue a task order to Gardiner, Kamya & Associates, P.C. under contract No. DU100C000018477, for accounting support services. Ervin argues that the task order is beyond the scope of Gardiner, Kamya's contract and that HUD should have conducted a competition for the acquisition. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND Gardiner, Kamya's Contract On February 17, 1995, HUD issued request for proposals (RFP) No. DU100C000018424 as a set-aside for eligible firms under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program.1 The solicitation anticipated the 1Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (1994), authorizes the SBA to contract with government agencies and to arrange for the performance of such contracts by awarding subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses.

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