Frank Thatcher Associates, Inc.
B-228744
Nov 12, 1987
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Frank Thatcher Associates, Inc., protests the procedures followed by the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, in soliciting proposals to conduct a microwave feasibility study under request for proposals (RFP) No. R3-87-30. Thatcher maintains that it was excluded from competition due to misclassification in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) of the notice advertising this procurement. We agree, since the misclassified notice failed to effectively notify those firms most capable of responding to this procurement such that the Forest Service failed to obtain "full and open competition" as required by the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA).
The protest is therefore sustained.