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B-283399.4 1 (2000-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakya0001 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: Marketing & Management Information, Inc. File: B-283399.4 Date: May 18, 2000 Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., and Brian T. Scher, Esq., Grayson & Kubli, PC, for the protester. Jay Manning, Esq., and Rexford T. Bragaw, III, Esq., Defense Commissary Agency, for the agency. Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that requirement should have been set aside for exclusive small business participation is denied where the contracting officer conducted market research, in response to prior General Accounting Office recommendation for additional investigation of small business capability and interest, which supports reasonableness of his conclusion that the agency could not expect to receive proposals from at least two responsible small business concerns capable of performing the solicitation requirements at a fair market price. DECISION Marketing & Management Information, Inc. (MMI) protests the decision by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) to issue request for proposals (RFP) No. DECA01-99-R-0069, for subscription access to an information retrieval database, on an unrestricted basis. MMI primarily challenges the adequacy of market research conducted by DeCA in implementing corrective action recommended in our decision in Marketing & Management Information, Inc., B-283399.2, B-283399.3, Nov. 30, 1999, 99-2 CPD TJ 105. That decision sustained MMI's protest of the agency's initial market research efforts prior to issuance of the solicitation, which we found to be insufficient to support the agency's determination to conduct the procurement on an unrestricted basis. MMI again contends that the procurement should be set aside for exclusive small business participation. We deny the protest.

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