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 2000-08-31 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:B-285164.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2 P0b002ee18fd48b81 f:2851642 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2 B-285164.2 Comptroller General Decision 1. The statutory limitation on General Accounting Office bid protest jurisdiction<p/>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, although triggered by the issuance of a task order, in essence, raises the question of whether the solicitation for the underlying ID/IQ contract properly could be used to procure services which, the protester argues, must be set aside for small businesses.<p/> 2. Despite the requirement that protests alleging improprieties in a solicitation must 3. be filed before the time set for receipt of proposals in response to the solicitation, 4 C.F.R. sect. 21.2(a)(1) (2000), a protester's challenge to a solicitation is timely, even though filed after the closing time, where numerous representatives of the federal government--including representatives of the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Department of the Air Force--led potential small business offerors to conclude that the contract resulting from the solicitation would not be used to procure certain travel services which, the protester argues, must be set aside for small businesses. 4. Protester's contention that the use of a government-wide unrestricted ID/IQ<p/>contract to procure travel management services at Travis Air Force Base, California, violates the requirement in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) sect. 19.502-2 to set aside procurements for small businesses where there is a reasonable expectation of receiving fair market price offers from at least two responsible small business concerns is sustained where the record shows that there is a significant pool of small business offerors who have responded to a recent solicitation for precisely these services, and where there is no evidence in the record of any reason why the agency could not set aside the procurement. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2/html/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2.pdf GAO/B-285164.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285164-2 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-285164.2; N&N Travel & Tours, Inc.; BCM Travel & Tours; Manassas Travel, Inc.;, B-285164.2; B-285164.3, August 31, 2000;