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B-414349 1 (2017-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Tom Smith Fire Equipment Company, Inc. File: B-414349 Date: May 15, 2017 Daniel F. Edwards, Esq., Stephen P. Withee, Esq., and Michelle Y. Harrison, Esq., Frost Brown Todd, LLC, for the protester. Heather M. Mandelkehr, Esq., Col. C. Taylor Smith, Michaelisa Tomasic-Lander, Esq., and Tedd J. Shimp, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's decision to set an acquisition aside for small businesses is denied where the contracting officer had a reasonable expectation that the agency would receive proposals from two or more capable small businesses at a fair market price. DECISION Tom Smith Fire Equipment Company, Inc. (Tom Smith), of Brandon, Florida, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8056-17-R-0001 for Fire Emergency Services Personal Protective Equipment. Tom Smith argues that the determination to set aside certain products included in the RFP for small business competition was improper and that several other aspects of the solicitation were flawed. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on December 21, 2016, seeks proposals to provide fire-fighting equipment for Air Force installations both within the contiguous United States and abroad. RFP at 301-2. The RFP includes five categories of equipment to be provided at fixed prices on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) basis during the contract's base year and four one-year option periods. Id. at 301. The solicitation anticipates the award of individual indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts for each of five product categories, based on independent, simultaneous

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