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B-299241 1 (2007-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaudp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Shirlington Limousine & Transport, Inc. File: B-299241 Date: March 13, 2007 David J. Taylor, Esq., Spriggs & Hollingsworth, for the protester. Rose J. Anderson, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, and Lara H. Hudson, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation requirements that secured storage facility contain an electronic access control system, that the contractor supply sedans, and that all shuttle buses be equipped with wheel chair lifts are unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the record establishes that requirement was reasonably designed to ensure that the government's needs would be met. 2. Protest challenging agency decision not to set aside procurement for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses is denied where the decision was based on sufficient facts to establish reasonableness of agency's conclusion that there was not a reasonable expectation that offers would be received from two or more HUBZone business concerns. DECISION Shirlington Limousine & Transport, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HSHQDC-07-R-00009, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for agency-wide transportation services. Shirlington asserts that the solicitation is unduly restrictive of competition because it requires the secured storage facility to be accessed by an electronic access control system, that the contractor supply sedans, and that all shuttle buses be equipped with wheelchair lifts. Shirlington also asserts that the solicitation, issued as a small business set- aside, instead should have been set aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business concerns. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND

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