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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision
Matter of: United Information Systems, Inc.
File: B-282895; B-282896
Date: June 22, 1999
Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., and Erin K Zack, Esq., Gadsby &
Hannah, for the protester.
Mike Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protests alleging that contracting agency improperly evaluated protester's proposals
submitted in response to solicitations issued pursuant to indefinite-quantity,
indefinite-delivery contract are dismissed pursuant to 41 U.S.C. § 253j(d) (1994),
which provides that [a] protest is not authorized in connection with the issuance or
proposed issuance of a task or delivery order except for a protest on the ground that
the order increases the scope, period, or maximum value of the contract under which
the order is issued, where the enumerated exceptions do not apply.
DECISION
United Information Systems, Inc. (UIS) protests the exclusion of its proposals from
the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) Nos. N02-CO-94024 and N02-
CO-94025, issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Department of Health and
Human Services, for systems administration and production of databases for the
International Cancer Information Center and for programming support for database
maintenance and distribution processes. UIS primarily argues that NCI unreasonably
evaluated its proposals.
We dismiss the protests.
According to the protester, the agency awarded UIS a multiple award task order
contract (N02-CO-84000) in December 1997, Protest at 3, and issued the RFPs which
are the subject of its protest on May 7, 1999. Id. at 2. The agency states that the two
RFPs here were issued to the multiple firms holding umbrella contracts such as N02-
CO-84000 as competitive task order solicitations. Summary Dismissal Request,
June 7, 1999, at 1. As such, the agency argues that we are precluded from considering
the protest by 41 U.S.C. § 253j(d) (1994), which provides that a [a] protest is not](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptajkt0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)