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B-288573 1 (2001-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamse0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability* Integrity Reliability Decision Matter of: Crown Contract Services File: B-288573 Date: October 31, 2001 Jesse W. Rigby, Esq., Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse, for the protester. Maj. Leslie A. Nepper, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation quantity estimates for hospital linen and laundry services are unobjectionable where based on the best available information, consisting of accurate recent historical data reasonably updated by application of the average annual volume increase, and adjusted to reflect the anticipated increase that will result from facility usage by a known group of newly eligible patients. DECISION Crown Contract Services protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DADA08-01-T-0258, issued by the Department of the Army for linen and laundry services for the Moncrief Army Community Hospital at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, alleging that the RFP quantity estimates are defective because they overstate the agency's actual needs. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on July 13, 2001, contemplates a requirements contract for linen and laundry services at Moncrief Hospital for a base year with four option years, and provides total yearly quantity estimates in ascending order, ranging from 536,000 pounds for the base year to 544,000 pounds for the final option year, with a 2,000 pound increase each year.' Crown currently provides laundry services for all 1 Under the initial RFP these numbers had been transposed erroneously, listing the base year estimate as 544,000 pounds, and listing the estimated quantities in (continued...)

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