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B-278457 1 (1998-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahoq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: American Medical Response of Connecticut, Inc. File: B-278457 Date: January 30, 1998 Gary D. Jones, Esq., Drubner, Hartley, O'Connor & Mengacci, L.L.C., for the protester. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Merilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's determinations to set aside procurements for chair car services for exclusive small business participation are reasonable where they are based on knowledge of previous participation in a procurement for the same services by at least two small business concerns who had submitted bids at fair market prices. DECISION American Medical Response of Connecticut, Inc. protests request for quotations (RFQ) No. 689-37-98, and RFQ No. 689-2-98, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for chair car services at the VA Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut. American Medical protests the issuance of the RFQs as small business set-asides. We deny the protest. American Medical, a large business concern, is the incumbent contractor for these services and, for approximately the last year, has been performing on an interim, noncompetitive basis while the agency addressed protests of the solicitation process. During that time, VA issued an invitation for bids (IFB). Three of the six bids received were from small business concerns. The contracting officer considered the prices from all three of these small business concerns to be very competitive with prices bid by the large business concerns. That solicitation was eventually canceled during the pendency of a protest by American Medical. On September 19, 1997, VA published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) an announcement of the issuance of RFQ No. 689-37-98, requesting quotes for providing chair car services for 2 months. The value of the services was estimated to be within the range of $2,500 to $100,000 and, considering the previous IFB

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