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B-283291 1 (1999-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajlz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Stewart Title Company of Illinois File: B-283291 Date: October 18, 1999 Serge E. Gaudry, Government Compliance Consultants, Inc., for the protester. Peter Alexander, Esq., an intervenor. Jud E. McNatt, Esq., Department of Housing & Urban Development, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly set acquisition aside for exclusive small business participation is denied, where record shows that agency had a reasonable basis to anticipate that it would receive offers from at least two responsible small business concerns, and that award would be made at fair market prices. DECISION Stewart Title Company of Illinois protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. R-ATL-00976, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for real estate closing services in and around the Chicago, Illinois area. Stewart maintains that the agency improperly issued the solicitation as a 100-percent small business set-aside. We deny the protest. The solicitation calls for real estate closing services in three regions, the Chicago area (region I), the surrounding counties (region II), and central Illinois (region III). RFP at 4. Stewart's protest focuses on regions I and II, where Stewart has been the incumbent contractor. HUD synopsized the acquisition, identifying it as a set-aside,

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