United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2000-03-01 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:B-284165 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284165 P0b002ee18fd48aa0 f:284165 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-284165 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-284165 B-284165 Comptroller General Decision 1. The statutory limitation on General Accounting Office bid protest jurisdiction over challenges to the award of a task order under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract does not apply where the protester's challenge, in essence, raises the question of whether the solicitation for the underlying ID/IQ contract properly included environmental remediation work at closing military installations in light of a statutory requirement to provide a preference for such work to businesses located in the vicinity of those installations.<p/>2. Despite the requirement that protests alleging improprieties in a solicitation must be filed before the time set for receipt of proposals in response to the solicitation, 4 C.F.R. sect. 21.2(a)(1) (1999), a protester's challenge to a solicitation is timely where the solicitation did not give sufficient notice to potential offerors that environmental remediation projects for military installations which were closed or realigned as part of the base realignment and closure process were included within the reach of the solicitation, and where the protester filed its challenge within 10 days of learning of the agency's interpretation of its solicitation.<p/>3. Protester's contention that the use of preplaced regional ID/IQ contracts for environmental remediation at closed or realigned military installations violates a statutory requirement to provide a preference, to the greatest extent practicable, for such work to businesses located in the vicinity of such installations is sustained where the record does not show that the agency gave reasonable consideration to the practicability of the statutory preference before awarding such contracts. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284165/html/GAOREPORTS-B-284165.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284165/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-284165.pdf GAO/B-284165 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284165 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-284165; Ocuto Blacktop & Paving Company, Inc., B-284165, March 1, 2000; Public Law 103-160