A firm protested the Department of the Interior's use of standard competitive procedures under a solicitation for mine monitoring services, contending that, since the required work was related to architectural and engineering services, Interior should have used special procedures required by the Brooks Act. GAO held that Interior properly used standard competitive procedures, since the services we...

PROCUREMENT - Competitive Negotiation - Use - Criteria PROCUREMENT - Special Procurement - Methods/Categories - Architect/engineering services - Use - Procedures DIGEST: Where performance of mine subsidence surveys does not require professional architectural and engineering (A-E) services and is independent of an A-E project. Mounts contends that the required surveying work is incidental to and re...