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B-290785 1 (2002-08-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-290785 Date: August 26, 2002 Bruce H. Kleinstein for the protester. Mike Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to investigate whether competition existed to perform requirements prior to awarding a sole-source contract to perform such requirements is denied where the procurement was under simplified acquisition procedures and where the record showed that the contracting officer reasonably determined that, under the circumstances of the contract action, only one source was reasonably available. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. protests the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to award a sole-source contract under solicitation No. 02m009110 to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for the services of a clinical social worker to provide assistance related to the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative and various suicide prevention activities. Information Ventures argues that the agency improperly failed to investigate whether competition exists to perform the requirement. We deny the protest. On June 13, 2002, HHS, on behalf of SAMHSA, published a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website (www.fedbizopps.gov) expressing its intent to make a sole-source award, using simplified acquisition procedures, to the NASW in connection with the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. Among other things, the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, administered by SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), seeks to improve the quality,

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