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B-298651 1 (2006-11-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasrk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: 2B Brokers et al. File: B-298651 Date: November 27, 2006 Richard D. Gluck, Esq., Benjamin J. Lambiotte, Esq., Robert A. Boraks, Esq., Harold G. Bailey, Jr., Esq., and Amy Morton, Esq., Garvey Schubert Barer, for the protesters. Lary W. Mohl, Esq., and Peter Ries, Esq., U.S. Transportation Command, Department of Defense, and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for the Defense Transportation Coordination Initiative that consolidated transportation coordination and freight transportation services was unduly restrictive of competition and was an impermissible bundling of requirements under the Small Business Act is denied, where the agency reasonably determined that consolidation would result in substantial cost savings and efficiencies and was necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION 2B Brokers and 89 other firms' protest the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HTC711-06-R-0001, issued by the United States Transportation Command, 1 The other protesters are A&A Transportation; ACE Transportation; Acme Trucklines; Alan Farmer; American Freight; American Road Lines; American World Forwarders, Inc.; Anita Howard; America Trans-Freight; Available Shippers; Big Rock Transportation; Blackhawk Transport, Inc.; Britton Transportation; C2 Freight Resources, Inc.; Callie Transport; Cargo Master; Carr Trucking; Cheetah Transportation; CL Services; Combined Transportation; Cowboy Trucking; CrossRoad Carriers; D and H Trucking; Daily Express; Dallas Mavis; Dalton Trucking; Daystar Transportation; Diamond Transportation System, Inc.; Diedes Transport; Dispatch Services; DTS Logistics; Durrett Trucking Inc.; Dynasty Transportation; E9 Logistics; Easton Transportation; Economy Transport; Encore (continued...)