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B-296536 1 (2005-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Computers Universal, Inc. File: B-296536 Date: August 18, 2005 Peter L. Cannon for the protester. Michael R. Rizzo, Esq., McKenna, Long and Aldridge, LLP, for abcISP, Inc., an intervenor. Dennis Foley, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's extension of a sole-source purchase order issued under the awardee's General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contracts is improper, is denied, where the agency established a reasonable basis for the limited extension until the protester's currently pending protest with our Office of the competitive procurement is resolved and award is made. DECISION Computers Universal, Inc. (CUI) protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) extension of a sole-source purchase order issued to abcISP, Inc. under that firm's General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, for information technology services for the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. We deny the protest. On October 6, 2004, CUI was awarded a contract for these services under a competitive procurement. Because of a protest by abcISP, on October 7, a stop work order was issued under that awarded contract. While that protest was being resolved, VA commenced issuing a series of sole-source emergency purchase orders and extensions thereto under abcISP's GSA contracts to satisfy its interim requirements for these services until this, and several following protests, were resolved. In part because of the issues raised by abcISP's protest, CUI's contract

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