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B-291417 1 (2002-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaojb0001 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: USA Information Systems, Inc. File: B-291417 Date: December 30, 2002 David K. Wilson, Esq., Troutman Sanders, for the protester. William B. Barton, Jr., Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, for Information Handling Services, Inc., an intervenor. Maj. Edward E. Beauchamp, and Sharon B. Patterson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the contracting agency, and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., for the Small Business Administration. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. The provisions of the Small Business Act, as amended, concerning bundling are not applicable to a solicitation that does not reflect the consolidation of services previously performed under separate smaller contracts; all of the services covered by the solicitation at issue were performed under one predecessor contract. 2. Agency has a reasonable basis to require a single web-based information retrieval system for on-line documentation as opposed to obtaining this information from multiple vendors, where it has reasonably determined that a one stop shop solution is critical to the agency's national defense mission. DECISION USA Information Systems, Inc., a small business concern, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. DAAH03-03-T-0009, issued by the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) for a web-based information retrieval system for on-line documentation. USA contends that the procurement is improperly bundled to the disadvantage of small business concerns. USA also states that the brand name or equal format is restrictive of competition, contending that this requirement should be stated in terms of specific performance requirements rather specifying a brand name. We deny the protest.

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