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B-296602 1 (2005-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqya0001 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: Encompass Group LLC File: B-296602; B-296617 Date: August 10, 2005 H. K. Tyler, Jr., for the protester. Maura C. Brown, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitations for linens and blankets should not be set aside for small business concerns because there are no small business manufacturers of bulk fabric from which the linens and blankets will be made is denied, where agency found from its market research two or more small business concerns that could provide the linens and blankets manufactured by small businesses and provided at fair market prices. DECISION Encompass Group LLC protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) Nos. 797-NC-05-0044 and 797-NC-05-0045, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for linen and blankets. We deny the protests. The RFPs were each issued as a total small business set-aside under a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12.6.' Offerors were informed that North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 314129 (a small business size standard of 500 employees) applied to each procurement. In addition, offerors were warned that if they were not the manufacturer of the product, the end product provided must be 1 FAR Part 12.6 provides streamlined procedures for the evaluation and solicitation of commercial items.

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