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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability 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: Global Solutions Network, Inc.
File: B-298682
Date: November 27, 2006
Gerald H. Werfel, Esq., Pompan, Murray & Werfel, PLC, for the protester.
Peter F. Pontzer, Esq., and Lt. Col. Brian J. Godard, Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Glenn Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency is improperly conducting procurement under commercial item
procedures is denied where protester has not shown that use of those procedures
will cause it competitive prejudice.
DECISION
Global Solutions Network, Inc. (GSN), a small business, protests the conduct of a
procurement by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No.
W91QV1-06-R-0033 for task order management and financial support for the
HRsolutions program office.' The protest contends that a named Army official in
the [deleted] office is biased against the protester, that the procurement is being
conducted under commercial item procedures, and that the government estimate
and workload data in the solicitation are incorrect and misleading.
We deny the protest.
'According to the Army's HRsolutions website, HRsolutions was created.., to
streamline the acquisition of human resource (HR) services and support for the
Army HR community, including family members. HRsolutions offers a dedicated
staff of contract specialists to facilitate the use of contracting services to meet
agency needs quickly using competitively-awarded contracts under its management.
About Army HRsolutions, https://www.hrsolutions.army.mil/abou.asp (last visited
November 21, 2006).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptasrm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)