B-229703: Apr 7, 1988

A firm protested an Army solicitation for housing maintenance and repair, contending that the solicitation improperly inflated contract performance costs through its misclassification of the work as construction subject to Davis-Bacon Act, rather than Service Contract Act wage rates. GAO held that the Service Contract Act did not apply to the solicitation, since the solicitation's principal purpos...

B-229703: Apr 7, 1988

The Service Contract Act does not apply where the proposed contract is not principally for services. When a housing unit becomes unoccupied the contractor will enter the unit. If more substantial repairs are needed. The contracting officer will order such work as Additional Maintenance. Floor refinishing and painting also will be ordered as needed. The protester alleges that much of the work under...