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B-288969.4 1 (2002-06-21)

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                        ____________________Comptroller General
   ki=I!in Accountablfty Integrity * Relliabilty                             of the United States
       United States General Accounting Office
       Washington, DC 20548



                 Decision


                 Matter of: Atlantic Coast Contracting, Inc

                 File:       B-288969.4

                 Date:       June 21, 2002

                 Hugh R. Overholt, Esq., Jennifer L. Bowman, Esq., and Albert R. Bell, Jr., Esq., Ward
                 and Smith, for the protester.
                 Reginald M. Jones, Esq., and Karl F. Dix, Jr., Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock, for Mark
                 Dunning Industries, an intervenor.
                 Captain Ronald D. Sullivan, Department of the Army, for the agency.
                 Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
                 Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
                 DIGEST

                 Modification to contract for refuse collection and disposal services, which only
                 shifted the responsibility of the contractor to perform front-end industrial refuse
                 collection with its own vehicles and containers instead of with government-furnished
                 vehicles and containers, did not exceed the scope of the original contract because
                 the fundamental nature or purpose of the contract remained unchanged.
                 DECISION

                 Atlantic Coast Contracting, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's modification
                 to contract No. DABTO1-01-C-0006, for refuse collection and disposal services at Fort
                 Rucker, Alabama, with Mark Dunning Industries. The modification is for Dunning to
                 perform the requirement for front-end industrial refuse collection under the contract
                 with its own trucks, instead of with government-furnished vehicles. Atlantic
                 contends that the modification exceeded the scope of the contract and resulted in an
                 improper sole-source award.

                 We deny the protest.

                 The refuse collection and disposal services contract, competitively solicited under
                 invitation for bids (IFB) No. DABTO1-01-B-0005, and awarded to Dunning on
                 September 14, 2001, was to obtain solid waste collection and disposal services at
O'N             Fort Rucker Alabama, for a base year with four yearly options. The total contract
                award price was $2,819,990. Atlantic did not submit a bid under the IFB. Due to two

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