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B-280021 1 (1998-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahuk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Malone Construction Company File: B-280021 Date: August 18, 1998 Rob Malone for the protester. Maj. Scott D. Schuler and Capt. Jean M. Aylward, National Guard Bureau, for the agency. Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., John Van Schaik, Esq. and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that consolidation of construction work on three projects into one procurement unduly restricts competition from small businesses is denied where record shows that, due to limited storage space and restricted access to the project sites, the agency reasonably concluded that its needs require that all three projects be performed by one contractor. DECISION Malone Construction Company, a small business, protests the consolidation of three construction projects at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, into one procurement under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAHA11-98-B-0003, issued by the National Guard Bureau/U.S. Property & Fiscal Office for Illinois. Malone contends that the IFB is unduly restrictive because consolidating the three projects into one procurement excludes small business participation. We deny the protest. The IFB includes separate plans and specifications for three projects: (1) alteration of an aircraft maintenance hangar, (2) construction of general purpose aircraft maintenance and engine inspection and repair shops, and (3) construction of a fuel cell/corrosion control hangar. Award is to be based on total prices for the three projects. The work under the IFB is required for the relocation of the 126th Air Refueling Wing from the O'Hare Air Reserve Station in Chicago to Scott Air Force Base. Memorandum of law at 2. This relocation effort was mandated by the 1995 Base Relocation and Closure Commission legislation, which required that the Scott Air Force Base facility be operational by July 1999. Id. In order to close the facility at O'Hare and meet the relocation requirements of the 126th Air Refueling Wing, the

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