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B-410432 1 (2014-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqut0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: The University of Montana File: B-410432 Date: December 22, 2014 Chelsey Porter, The University of Montana, for the protester. Michael J. Noble, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging inclusion of solicitation provision in General Services Administration Schedule 738 II, requiring all offerors, other than small businesses, to submit small business subcontracting plans with initial offers, is denied where provision was included in accordance with applicable regulations. DECISION The University of Montana, of Missoula, Montana, protests the terms of solicitation No. TFTP-GC-01 7382-B, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, for language services. The protester argues that the solicitation is defective because it includes a provision requiring all offerors, other than small business concerns, to submit a small business subcontracting plan with their proposals, which, according to the protester, is inconsistent with applicable regulations and customary commercial practice. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on an unrestricted basis, seeks proposals for the award of an unlimited number of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under GSA Schedule 738 II, which covers a wide range of commercial language services including translation, interpretation, linguistic analysis, and assistance for the visual and hearing impaired. Contracting Officer Statement of Facts (CO Statement) at 1. Originally issued on July 1, 1999, the solicitation does not have a closing date and is thus continuously open for offerors to submit proposals. Id. GSA periodically

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