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B-287275 1 (2001-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamph0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Aleman & Associates, Inc. File: B-287275 Date: May 17, 2001 Albert T. Aleman, Jr., for the protester. Michael K. Cameron, Esq., Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, for the agency. Jeanne W. Isrin, Esq., and Jerold D. Cohen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's issuance of purchase orders to maintain interim services while competitive procurement for the same services was ongoing violated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements because (1) they were not procured using full and open competition; (2) their requirements were not synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD); and (3) the protester was not sent a copy of the solicitations, is denied. The purchase orders were issued using the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR Part 13 which, under the circumstances here, do not require full and open competition or CBD synopsis, and did not mandate distribution of the solicitations to the protester. DECISION Aleman & Associates, Inc. protests the issuance of purchase order Nos. ACD-1-P- 0001, ACD-1-P-0002, ACD-1-P-0003, and LRT-1-P-0060 by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Department of Justice, for janitorial and grounds maintenance services at border patrol stations and related INS facilities in the Laredo, Texas area. We deny the protest. The 12 facilities covered by the 4 purchase orders employ Border Patrol agents who are responsible for apprehending illegal immigrants and maintaining custody of them at the facilities. Contracting Officer's Statement at 1. INS previously had procured the required janitorial and grounds maintenance services for 11 of the facilities competitively, which had resulted in purchase orders to 3 different contractors; one

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