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B-283129 1 (1999-10-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajle0001 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: EAl Corporation File: B-283129 Date: October 7, 1999 William B. Barton, IV, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton & Tolle, for the protester. Richard Ferguson, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Grant, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's decision not to set aside portion of solicitation for exclusive small business participation was proper where agency reasonably determined that requirement to operate information analysis center for chemical and biological warfare and requirement to perform additional research tasks in the same subject areas are interrelated and interdependent, such that partitioning the requirements is not practicable. DECISION EAI Corporation protests that Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) request for proposals (RFP) No. SPO700-99-R-0050, which calls for contractor to establish and operate a chemical warfare/chemical and biological defense information analysis center (CBIAC), should have been partially set aside for exclusive small business participation. We deny the protest. The purpose of the CBIAC is to provide scientific and technical analysis and technical advisory services to assist the chemical and biological defense community in meeting technical and operational objectives relating to chemical warfare and chemical biological defense. RFP at 36. The successful contractor will perform basic or core center functions, as well as additional technical area tasks (TAT). The basic functions include information collection, information processing, information analysis, and information dissemination. Id. at 38-44. TATs are over and above the

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