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B-282167 1 (1999-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajiy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: S&KElectronics File: B-282167 Date: June 10, 1999 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., and Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Piliero, Mazza & Pargament, for the protester. Marc Rigrodsky, Esq., Department of Treasury, Roger D. Waldron, Esq., General Services Administration, and Kenneth W. Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Decision whether to place procurement under 8(a) program is not subject to General Accounting Office review where there is no showing of possible bad faith on the part of government officials or that regulations may have been violated. 2. Protest by 8(a) firm alleging improper bundling of desktop computing requirements under General Services Administration's Seat Management Services Program is denied where record shows Seat Management contracts reflect qualitatively different approach from earlier acquisitions and agency reasonably anticipated substantial technical benefits from use of Seat Management contract to acquire broad range of computing requirements under one contract. DECISION S&K Electronics (SEE) protests the Department of the Treasury's determination to acquire information technology (IT) technical support services--previously furnished by a section 8(a) contractor--as part of a package of IT services, hardware and software under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Seat Management Services Program. SEE asserts that this approach violates Treasury's procurement regulations with respect to section 8(a) contracts and constitutes improper contract bundling. We deny the protest.

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