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B-290414 1 (2002-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaofl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Military Agency Services Pty., Ltd. File: B-290414; B-290441; B-290468; B-290496 Date: August 1, 2002 Chris Mangan for the protester. Lis B. Young, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. General Accounting Office (GAO) will not consider protests that awards under solicitations for services breach the protester's requirements contract because this is a contract administration matter and therefore outside GAO's bid protest jurisdiction. 2. Protest of solicitation requirement as unduly restrictive is denied, where the requirement relates to safety and reliability, and the protester has not shown the requirement is unreasonable or unachievable. 3. Agency's request for near-immediate responses to requests for quotations for picket boat services conducted under simplified acquisition procedures is unobjectionable, where the requirements were needed shortly after when responses were due, the contracting office was only requisitioned to obtain the requirements shortly before requesting quotes, only prices were solicited, and all requested sources timely submitted quotes. 4. Defense agency was not required to comply with the public notice requirements contained in Federal Acquisition Regulation part 5 where the acquisitions were for services performed outside the United States and only local sources were solicited. 5. Where no evaluation factors are specified in a request for quotations, which only requests prices, price is the sole evaluation factor. 6. Even assuming agency improperly failed to solicit the protester under a request for quotations (RFQ) issued under simplified acquisition procedures for picket boat

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