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B-416386 1 (2018-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Plateau Software, Inc. File: B-416386 Date: August 24, 2018 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Shane J. McCall, Esq., and Stephan L. Skepnek, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Thomas Fording, Esq., and Robert Elwell, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation's requirement to provide meeting space is ambiguous and unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the solicitation provides sufficient information to allow offerors to intelligently prepare their proposals on a common basis and is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. 2. Protest challenging agency's decision not to set aside the procurement for small businesses is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research that it did not have a reasonable expectation of receiving proposals from two or more small businesses capable of performing the required services. DECISION Plateau Software, Inc., a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N0001 4-18-R-0004 issued by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR), for scientific and engineering technical assistance services. The protester contends that the RFP is ambiguous and unduly restrictive of competition, and the procurement should have been set aside for small businesses. We deny the protest.

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