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B-297121 1 (2005-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqze0001 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: Cartographics, LLC File: B-297121 Date: November 15, 2005 Kevin W. McCann and Diana McCann for the protester. Samar A. Shams, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency should have issued task order for digital conversion of maps to protester under its multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for cartographic services, rather than to awardee under its architect/ engineering services ID/IQ contract, is dismissed; GAO lacks jurisdiction to consider issuance of task order against ID/IQ contract. DECISION Cartographics, LLC protests the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service's issuance of a task order to Photo Science, Inc. under indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract No. 53-84N8-5-001, for digital conversion of maps of the Targhee National Forest. Cartographics contends that the agency improperly selected Photo Science despite Cartographics' lower price. We dismiss the protest for lack of jurisdiction. On October 1, 2003, the Forest Service made awards to Cartographics and four other firms under ID/IQ contract No. 53-05G2-4-0004. This contract, for professional cartographic services, required the agency to purchase a minimum of $3,000 worth of services per year from Cartographics. A little over a year later, the Forest Service awarded contracts for geographic information system (GIS) services--including services such as data conversion, integration, and processing, as well as database linking and other GIS database services--to Photo Science and another firm under ID/IQ contract No. 53-84N8-5-001, pursuant to the architect and engineering procedures found in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 36.6. The two

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