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B-280130 1 (1998-06-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahup0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The Intrados Group File: B-280130 Date: June 22, 1998 Richard Maresca, Esq., Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, for the protester. Rumu Sarkar, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency. Paula Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. GAO dismisses protest of an order placed under a task order contract pursuant to 41 U.S.C. § 253j(d) (1994), which provides that a protest is not authorized in connection with the issuance or proposed issuance of a task or delivery order except on the ground that the order increases the scope, period, or maximum value of the contract under which the order is issued, where the enumerated exception does not apply. 2. Although restriction on protests of orders placed under a task order contract, as contained in 41 U.S.C. § 253j(d), does not apply to protests of downselections implemented by the placement of a task order under a multiple award task order contract where the task order results in the elimination of one of the contractors from consideration for future orders, this exception to the protest restriction does not apply where an agency merely consolidates several task orders under one task order, but is not implementing a downselect by issuance of that task order. DECISION The Intrados Group protests the United States Agency for International Development's (AID) issuance of a task order to Financial Markets International under indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery, multiple award contracts awarded under request for proposals (RFP) No. OP/CC/N-94-2 for technical assistance services to support the privatization and economic restructuring program for Europe and the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. We dismiss the protest. The RFP described privatization services to be provided over a 5-year period for the following five functional activities: (a) transactions; (b) financial sector restructuring and privatization; (c) privatization advisory and training services and support; (d) capital and financial markets to support privatization; and (e) public

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