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B-279083 1 (1998-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahrk0001 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-279083; B-279219 Date: April 30, 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 1. Protests that task orders improperly exceed the scope of the contracts originally awarded are denied; since relevant language in the solicitation's statement of work sets forth the anticipated services in broad, general, and flexible terms, potential offerors would reasonably have anticipated being asked to perform nearly any type of management support services, including those set forth in these task orders. 2. General Accounting Office declines to invoke the significant issue exception to its timeliness rules where there has recently been a change to the legal framework applicable to the issue presented--the alleged overbreadth of the statement of work in a solicitation for an indefinite-quantity task order contract; as a result, resolution of the issue would have limited application to future procurements and thus is not of widespread interest to the procurement community. DECISION Ervin and Associates, Inc. protests the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) decision to compete two task orders among its seven management studies contractors, all of whose contracts were awarded under request for proposals (RFP) No. DU100C000018431. Ervin argues that both task orders--one requesting operations analysis of HUD's Office of Housing and one requesting management studies and budget formulation for HUD's portfolio reengineering program--are beyond the scope of the management studies contracts. We deny the protests.

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