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             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


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B-219837                       October 15, 1985

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The Honorable Jerry Lewis

House of Representatives

Dear Mr. Lewis:

     This is in response to your letter of July 30, 1985,
concerning the conduct of solicitation No. DLA100-85-B-0778
for canteen cups by the Defense Personnel Support Center
(DPSC), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. We previously forwarded to your office a copy
of our decision of August 30, 1985, on the protest of
Pacific Fabrication regarding this procurement.

     In your letter you posed tour questions concerning
DPSC's practices in determining that this procurement should
be a partial small business set-aside. The questions and
our responses thereto are as follows:

     (1) Did the contracting officer for this
     particular contract consider a small business
     set-aside designation (Fede ral Acquisition
     Regulation (FAR) S 19 .502)Vbetore placing it
     in a priority 2 status?

     Response: DLA advises us that they did
     consiaer making this procurement a total
     small business set-aside. However, there
     was a large business plannea producer which
     expressed a desire to supply some of the
     canteen cups whicn are an industrial readi-
     ness planning program product. This program
     is intended to allow maintenance of an
     industrial mobilization base of qualified
     firms to produce products essential to the

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