Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Kingdomware Technologies Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) issued on a brand name or equal basis was proper where the RFQ failed to list any salient characteristics for use in evaluating equal products or identify a requirement that equal products
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Phoenix Environmental Design, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) violated the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006, and its implementing regulations when the VA issued an order to a small business concern, is
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Aldevra Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine whether two or more service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns can meet its requirements at a reasonable price before proceeding with
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Aldevra Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine whether two or more service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns can meet its requirements at a reasonable price before proceeding with
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Pierce First Medical; Alternative Contracting Enterprises, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Requests for Reconsideration Denied _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protesters’ requests to reconsider our decision denying their protests are denied where the requests merely express disagreement with the prior decision, reiterate arguments made previously, and raise new arguments that could
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Kingdomware Technologies Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The Department of Veterans Affairs improperly used non-mandatory Federal Supply Schedule procedures to procure services, rather than using a set-aside for service disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concerns, and improperly awarding a contract to a non-SDVOSB concern. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Aldevra Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests Sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine whether two or more service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns can meet its requirements at a reasonable price before proceeding with
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Crosstown Courier Service, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that Department of Veterans Affairs improperly set aside a Federal Supply Schedule task order acquisition for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses is denied where record shows that agency’s actions were an unobjectionable exercise of its authority
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Kevcon, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s decision to not set aside a procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) is denied where the agency concluded from its market research that it did not have a reasonable expectation of receiving proposals
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: American Medical Response Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that Department of Veterans Affairs unreasonably set aside an acquisition for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses is denied where record shows that agency’s market research demonstrated that at least two such firms would likely submit proposals and
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Encompass Group, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that solicitations for towels, washcloths, laundry bags and isolation gowns should not be set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concerns because there are no SDVOSB concerns that actually manufacture or assemble textiles to the
Link: GAO Decision Protestors: Alternative Contracting Enterprises, LLC; Pierce First Medical Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests Denied. __________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protests that the Department of Veterans Affairs violated the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 (VA Act) by failing to consider whether procurements should be set aside for service-disabled,
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Aldevra Attachment: VA response to this decision in Aldevra, B-406205, March 14, 2012 Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine whether two or more service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Legatus6, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protests maintaining that solicitations should be set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) are denied where record shows that, on the basis of adequate market research, the agency concluded that it did not have a reasonable expectation
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Commandeer Construction Company LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Request for Reconsideration Denied; Recommendation Modified. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Agency’s request to reconsider our decision sustaining a protest is denied where agency’s request either reiterates arguments made previously and merely expresses disagreement with the prior decision, or is based on
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) awardee’s ability to perform more than 50 percent of the contract requirements is denied because, although the solicitation stated that SDVOSB concerns would receive an evaluation preference, the solicitation was not set aside for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly rejected protester’s low bid under a solicitation set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) is denied where the agency’s Center for Veterans Enterprise determined prior to the due date for submission of bids that the protester
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that the Department of Veterans Affairs is required to expedite its review of an apparent successful offeror’s application for status verification as a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business concern is denied, where the solicitation did not provide for such an
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: SDVOSB; CVE; VIP Database; Set-aside —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO Digest: Protest alleging that agency improperly rejected protester’s bid in violation of a solicitation clause is sustained where the clause contained a latent ambiguity, the protester reasonably concluded that the clause at issue allowed for an
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed. Keywords: Interested party; set-aside; SDVOSB General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protestor must be an interested party as defined in the Competition in Contracting Act of 1994 to successfully protest a contract award. In a set aside if the protestor is not qualified for the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Education Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: SDVOSB; set-aside; agency report rebuttal General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An error in the solicitation is likely not prejudicial if there is no vendor question asked regarding it and if a protestor fails to respond to an agency report the GAO will consider those grounds
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: SDVOSB; Veterans First; sole-source award General Counsel P.C. Highlight: When the VA awards a sole-source award under Veterans First it is not required to set aside the award for SDVOSBs. —————————————————————————————————————————– Crosstown Courier Service, Inc. (Crosstown), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) protests
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Joint Venture; SDVO Set-Aside General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where the solicitation requires offerors to be SDVO small businesses and verified by the VA’s VetBiz program, a proposal from a joint venture, which itself is not listed in the VetBiz database, is not eligible for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: SDVO Set asides General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The Veterans First Contracting Program provides the VA with independent authority to set aside contracts for Service Disabled-Veteran Owned (SDVO) Small Businesses and Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) firms. SDVOSB firms receive first priority and acquisitions must be
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protests sustained. Keywords: SDVO set aside requirements General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Procurements for Architect-Engineering (A/E) services are not exempt from the Veteran’s Administration requirement for setting aside contracts for veteran-owned companies. —————————————————————————————————————————– Powerhouse Design Architects & Engineers, Ltd. protests the terms of eight Sources Sought Notices (SSN)
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: SDVO; SBA Status protest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Because the agency’s decision not to consider a previously disqualified SDVOSBC eligible for award was consistent with prior SBA policy, the VA’s exclusion of the contractor from award was upheld and the protest was denied. —————————————————————————————————————————–
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Veterans Administration Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Set Aside General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The VA’s statutory authority to make SDVOSB set aside awards requires that the SDVOSB be on the VA’s current database at the time of award before it can receive an award. —————————————————————————————————————————– The Veterans Administration maintains
Link: GAO Opinion Agencies: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. Keywords: SDVO, Sole-source award General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: The Veterans Administration may award a sole-source set aside contract under the terms of FAR Part 19.14, or, unique to the VA, under the terms of 38 U.S.C. § 8127, the Veterans First Contracting Program. —————————————————————————————————————————–
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed in part and denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to make sole-source award to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern and impermissibly competed the acquisition on an unrestricted basis is dismissed where the protest was filed after award.