B-283129: Oct 7, 1999

DIGEST Agency's decision not to set aside portion of solicitation for exclusive small business participation was proper where agency reasonably determined that requirement to operate information analysis center for chemical and biological warfare and requirement to perform additional research tasks in the same subject areas are interrelated and interdependent. Such that partitioning the requiremen...

B-283129: Oct 7, 1999

A firm protested a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) solicitation for chemical defense biological analysis, contending that the solicitation should be divided into two parts so that a portion of the solicitation could be set aside for small business participation. GAO held that DLA reasonably determined that it would be impractical to separate the solicitation into two parts, since the solicitation's...