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B-279347 1 (1998-06-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahsf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Jack Faucett Associates, Inc. File: B-279347 Date: June 3, 1998 Jack G. Faucett for the protester. Michael Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In acquisition conducted using simplified acquisition procedures via Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET), agency failed to give interested vendors a reasonable opportunity to respond to a notice of intent to award on a sole-source basis where sole-source purchase order was issued only 1 day after FACNET notice of intent was issued. DECISION Jack Faucett Associates, Inc. protests the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) issuance on a sole-source basis of a purchase order to Social and Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSSI) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. QJC-80273, to support the participation of NIH's Office of Loan Repayment and Scholarship (OLRS) at meetings of the American Medical Students Association (AMSA). The protester contends that companies other than SSSI, including itself, could have furnished the services sought, but were not given a reasonable opportunity to respond to the RFQ. We sustain the protest. NIH issued the RFQ through the Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET) on February 18, 1998.1 The acquisition was conducted using the simplified IFACNET, a government-wide electronic data interchange systems architecture, was designed to provide for electronic data interchange of acquisition information between the government and the private sector, employ nationally and internationally recognized data formats, and provide universal user access. See 41 U.S.C.A. § 426(a), (b)(3) (West Supp. 1998); Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 4.501. It was intended to create an electronic marketplace for procuring supplies and services in which agencies can post notices of and receive responses to (continued...)

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