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. G A 0 Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Hospital Klean, hie.
File: B-286791
Date: December 8, 2000
Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., for the protester.
Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., Douglas & Barnhill, for BMAR & Associates, Inc., an
intervenor.
Steven W. Feldman, Esq., and Craig R. Schmauder, Esq., Department of the Army, for
the agency.
Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in preparing the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that contracting agency improperly proposes to issue a task order under an
indefinite -delivery/indefinite -quantity contract is dismissed pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§ 2304c(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
Hospital Klean, Inc. protests the proposed issuance of a task order to BMAR &
Associates, Inc. by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center,
Alabama, for hospital housekeeping services at the Womack Army Medical Center,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Army states that it proposes to issue the task order
under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract (No. DACA87-00-D-
0004) that it awarded to BMAR on April 26, 2000. Hospital lean contends that the
agency intends improperly to issue the task order on a sole-source basis and that the
requirement should have been set aside under the Small Business Administration's
(SBA) section 8(a) program.
We dismiss the protest.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptalgf0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)