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B-293743 1 (2004-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapma0001 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: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-293743 Date: May 20, 2004 Bruce H. Kleinstein for the protester. Karen M. Reilley, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's issuance of solicitation to procure services using Federal Supply Schedule procedures was improper where the services were not within the scope of the chosen schedule. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. protests the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) decision to procure SPACELINE database bibliographic services under request for offer (RFO) No. 04-HAD-001, issued to vendors holding a current Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) under Schedule 70, Special Item Number (SIN) 132-51. We sustain the protest. The SPACELINE database was established through an agreement between NASA and the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NLM) in order to collect, organize, and make available to the scientific and educational communities and to the public, electronic references to the scientific literature of the space life sciences. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1. Currently, the SPACELINE database is maintained by NLM, and NASA is responsible for identifying the bibliographic references for inclusion in the database. On March 15, 2004, NASA issued the subject RFO for SPACELINE bibliographic services, for a period of performance through December 31, 2004, to four vendors identified under GSA's list of FSS contractors for Schedule 70, General Purpose

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