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B-280714 1 (1998-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahwp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Four Winds Services, Inc. File: B-280714 Date: August 28, 1998 Roberta Carver and Denis M. Carson for the protester. C. Gordon Jones, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Adam Vodraska, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester is not an interested party to protest the issuance of a small business set- aside solicitation under commercial item acquisition procedures where the protester concedes that it is a large business under the size standard applicable to the solicitation. DECISION Four Winds Services, Inc., protests the issuance of request for proposals (RFP) No. F64605-98-R-0018 by the Department of the Air Force under the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12. The RFP is for operating the postal service center and the base information transfer center at Iickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The protester contends that some of the RFP's requirements are not consistent with commercial practice, so that this acquisition should not be procured under FAR part 12 procedures. We dismiss the protest because Four Winds is not an interested party eligible to maintain this protest. The RFP was issued as a total small business set-aside, but did not initially include a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code and corresponding small business size standard. The Air Force amended the RFP, assigning SIC code 7389 (business services, not elsewhere classified), which has a corresponding size standard of $5 million annual receipts. FAR § 19.102(g). The Air Force later amended the RFP again, changing the SIC code to 8744 (facilities support management services), which also has a size standard of $5 million. Id. The amendment extended the proposal due date to August 7. Four Winds appealed the contracting officer's selection of the above SIC codes to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA), contending that the correct SIC code for this acquisition should be 4215 (courier

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