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B-299456 1 (2007-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaueu0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of: Lockmasters Security Institute, Inc. File: B-299456 Date: May 21, 2007 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., and Amanda B. Weiner, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. Wilburt Jones, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Challenge to agency's limitation of competition under a request for quotations (RFQ) to vendors who held a particular General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is denied where agency had a reasonable basis for its decision to seek quotations under that schedule. 2. Agency does not unreasonably limit competition where it issues an RFQ under a different GSA FSS contract than the schedule under which the incumbent contractor had been providing the agency's requirements. DECISION Lockmasters Security Institute, Inc. (LSI) protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSCG23-07-Q-PTC006, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for technical support services for the agency's Office of Security Policy and Management. The protester argues that the agency's decision to obtain these services under Schedule 84 of the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS)--as opposed to procuring them under Schedule 69, which was used to procure these services previously--was improper, and further argues that the solicitation is restrictive of competition because the decision to procure under Schedule 84 precludes LSI from competing for the work. We deny the protest.

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