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B-287714.2 1 (2001-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamqs0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: New Technology Management, Inc. File: B-287714.2; B-287714.3; B-287714.4 Date: December 4, 2001 Richard J. Webber, Esq., and Natalie Stoney Walters, Esq., Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, for the protester. Daniel N. Hylton, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., for the Small Business Administration. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency decision that sole-source contract awarded under Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program should include only one 1-year option-as a result of which the contract value remained under the $3 million ceiling requiring competitive procurement-does not violate prohibition against dividing current requirements into separate procurements to avoid requirement for competition, where record shows that the performance period in fact reflects agency's requirements. 2. Protester's request for a recommendation that it be reimbursed the costs of filing two prior protests on the basis that the agency failed to timely implement its proposed corrective action is denied where the record shows that the agency did, in fact, timely implement the promised corrective action that prompted the dismissal of the protests. DECISION New Technology Management, Inc. (NTMI) protests the award of a contract for information technology help desk support to OASAS Learning Solutions, Inc., made by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a sole-source basis pursuant to the

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