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B-285458 1 (2000-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldn0001 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: National Linen Service File: B-285458 Date: August 22, 2000 James J. McCullough, Esq., and Catherine E. Pollack, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, and Maj. Howard W. Roth, III, Department of the Army, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Audrey H. Liebross, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. 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 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 a fair market price. DECISION National Linen Service protests the terms of invitation forbids (IFB) No. DAKF40-00- B-0006, issued by the Department of the Army for medical linen laundry services at Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. National, a large business, contends that the agency improperly issued the solicitation as a total small business set-aside. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued on May 11, 2000, as a 100-percent small business set-aside, contemplates the award of a requirements contract, for a base year and 4 option years, to the responsible bidder submitting the low conforming bid. IFB TT 52.212- 2(a), 52.216-21; Agency Memorandum of Law at 1. The awardee is to provide the personnel, materials, transportation, supplies, equipment, and facilities for laundry services for approximately 90,000 to 100,000 pounds per month of WAMC medical linens. IFB Statement of Work TT1, 5, Technical Exh. 1.

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