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B-280318 1 (1998-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: John Blood File: B-280318; B-280319 Date: August 31, 1998 John Blood for the protester. Lynn W. Flanagan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. David R. Kohler, Esq., and Denise Benjamin-Bibby, Esq., for the Small Business Administratio n. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Timber stand improvement requirements were properly accepted into the section 8(a) program where no adverse impact on small businesses was found, pursuant to 13 C.F.R. § 124.309(c) (1998), because it was reasonably determined that the requirements were new, such that there were no incumbent small businesses who would be adversely affected. DECISION John Blood protests the decision of the Forest Service and Small Business Administration (SBA) to contract under the section 8(a) set-aside program with Juan Acevedo Reforestation pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. CAZ-98-24, and with Arrowhead Starr Company pursuant to RFP No. CAZ-98-27, for timber stand improvements in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests in Colorado and Wyoming.1 We deny the protests. The Forest Service procures timber stand improvement in connection with commercial timber sales. In order to prepare certain timber for sale, the Forest Service identifies a plot of trees to undergo timber stand improvement by thinning defective trees and/or removing undesirable species of trees from the designated timber stand, so that the most desirable trees are left in the stand for future growth and sale. Timber stand improvement may also include reseeding, replanting, or 'Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (1994), authorizes the SBA to contract with government agencies and arrange for performance of those contracts by awarding subcontracts to small socially and economically disadvantaged businesses.

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