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B-292357.2 1 (2004-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaphp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Millennium Data Systems, Inc. File: B-292357.2 Date: March 12, 2004 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., and Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. Kenneth R. Pakula, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency; Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that the agency improperly issued a task order to a Federal Supply Schedule contract holder that did not meet the applicable size standard in the request for quotations (RFQ) is denied where the RFQ did not indicate that eligibility for the task order was limited to small businesses, and where the record shows that the agency did not intend to limit eligibility for the order to small businesses. DECISION Millennium Data Systems, Inc. (MDS) protests the issuance by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a task order for information services for EPA's Region 5 offices to RS Information Systems, Inc. (RS), pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. R5-03-2003. The RFQ, as initially issued, sought quotation packages--in essence, technical proposals--from entities holding a contract under Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) GS-35F-5355H for information services, that were also certified as small disadvantaged business (SDB) concerns by the Small Business Administration (SBA). MDS argues that RS is ineligible for the order because it is not an SDB, and because SBA determined that RS was other than a small business for purposes of this procurement. MDS also argues that EPA failed to conduct a proper realism analysis of the price in RS's quotation. We deny the protest.

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