A firm protested three Coast Guard purchase orders for clinical laboratory services, contending that the Coast Guard failed to: (1) advertise its requirements in the Commerce Business Daily; and (2) give it the opportunity to compete. GAO held that the Coast Guard: (1) was not required to advertise its requirements under the small-purchase procedures; and (2) did not deliberately or consciously ex...

PROCUREMENT - Small Purchase Method - Requests for quotations - Contractors - Exclusion - Propriety DIGEST: An agency's failure to solicit the incumbent contractor for procurements conducted under small purchase procedures is not improper where the incumbent contractor was not deliberately or consciously excluded and competition "to the maximum extent practicable" was obtained. Contends that the i...