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B-282497 1 (1999-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajka0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Diversified Technology & Services of Virginia, Inc. File: B-282497 Date: July 19, 1999 Virginia Smith and E. D. David for the protester. Marion T. Cordova, Esq., Agricultural Research Service, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that sole-source extension of contract is an improper result of poor planning on the agency's part is denied where the record shows that the agency engaged in extensive planning (once it determined that a change in contract type would better serve the government's interests), properly justified its use of sole-source authority, and reasonably limited the sole-source extension to a 3-month period, with additional 1-month options. DECISION Diversified Technology & Services of Virginia, Inc. protests the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service's sole-source extension of contract No. 53-3K06-8-8 for operations and maintenance support services for its Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Diversified alleges that the extension is improper because it is due to a lack of planning on the agency's part. We deny the protest. In September 1997, Diversified was selected for award under request for proposals (RFP) No. 01-3K06-97 for these same services. Three offerors protested improprieties in the evaluation and source selection process, and a hearing was held in our Office in November. During the course of that hearing, the agency recognized that the evaluation had been improper, and proposed to reevaluate proposals and make a new source selection based on that reevaluation. As a result, Diversified's contract was terminated for the convenience of the government.

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