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B-293221.2 1 (2004-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapkm0001 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: Teximara, Inc. File: B-293221.2 Date: July 9, 2004 Wayne A. Keup, Esq., Blank Rome, for the protester. Michael J. O'Farrell, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation that consolidated grounds maintenance with 13 other base operations support functions violated the Competition in Contracting Act's and the Small Business Act's bundling rules is denied where the agency reasonably determined that consolidation would result in significant efficiencies and savings, and is necessary to meet its needs. DECISION Teximara, Inc. protests the consolidation of grounds maintenance with 13 other base operations support functions under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41689-02- R-0048, issued by the Department of the Air Force for base operations support (BOS) at Kessler Air Force Base (AFB) in Mississippi. Teximara, a small business that performs grounds maintenance, contends that consolidation of grounds maintenance with the other functions violates the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) and the Small Business Act. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP is one of two solicitations issued as part of an agency effort to conduct Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 cost comparison studies for 17 BOS functions at Kessler AFB. One solicitation, not protested here, is set aside exclusively for small business concerns and consolidates the following functions: communications and information technology, multimedia services, and publishing

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