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B-282690 1 (1999-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkk0001 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: Makro Janitorial Services, Inc. File: B-282690 Date: August 18, 1999 Miguel Valladares for the protester. Thomas W. Burt, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Win. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a task order for housekeeping services improperly exceeds the scope of the original contract for preventive maintenance and inventory, repairs and facility survey activities, that was subsequently modified to include the services covered by the task order, is sustained where the original contract as competed did not reasonably provide for the procurement of the housekeeping services added by the modification, and the modification was therefore outside the scope of the original contract. The use of the task order to obtain these services was improper and the services should be obtained through full and open competition. DECISION Makro Janitorial Services, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's failure to compete the procurement of housekeeping services for locations at the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center (Ft. Meade), Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The agency issued task order No. 0084 for these housekeeping services to BMAR and Associates, Inc. under contract No. DACA01-96-D-0023, which was for preventive maintenance and equipment inventories at medical facilities in the continental United States, Caribbean, Alaska, and Hawaii. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1. The BMAR contract was modified in 1997 to include housekeeping and exterior grounds maintenance services. BMAR Contract at C-7-1 to C-7-5. Macro contends that the issuance of the task order in lieu of competing the procurement was improper and resulted in prices higher than those that would have been obtained through competition. Protester's Comments at 8-10.

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