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B-297200.3 1 (2006-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaslz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Global Analytic Information Technology Services, Inc. File: B-297200.3 Date: March 21, 2006 William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon, Hildebrant & Tolle, LLP, for the protester. Angela B. Styles, Esq., and Robert K. Huffman, Esq., Miller & Chevalier, for McLane Advanced Technologies LLC, the intervenor. Lt. Col. Frank A. March, Department of the Army, Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where agency initially set Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procurement aside for small businesses, but subsequently decided to conduct purchase on non-set-aside basis, agency's elimination of set-aside was unobjectionable; small business set-aside requirments do not apply to FSS purchases. DECISION Global Analytic Information Technology Services, Inc. (GAITS) protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91QUZ-06-Q-0001 (RFQ-0001), issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Agency, Information Technology E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center, as a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) purchase of project management and support services for the Standard Army Maintenance System-Enhanced and Legacy Standard Army Management Information Systems modernization program. GAITS, a small business concern, argues that the solicitation should be set aside for small businesses. We deny the protest. The agency originally sought the services here under RFQ No. W91QUZ-05-Q-0005, which was set aside for small business concerns. This resulted in issuance of a task order to McLane Advanced Technologies, LLC, which was followed by the filing of

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