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B-416935 1 (2019-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Veterans2Work, Inc. File: B-416935 Date: January 9, 2019 John Reynolds for the protester. Melody A. Goldberg, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation and the ground rules under which the competition was conducted is dismissed as untimely where the protest was filed after the award of the contract. 2. Protest alleging that the agency improperly released the company's sensitive information as part of the solicitation is denied where the record reflects that the protester offered to provide the information to the agency for the express purpose of including the information in the solicitation's statement of work. DECISION Veterans2Work, Inc. (V2W), of Novato, California, protests the award of a contract to Predictive Index Arizona, Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C250-18-Q-9856, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for services to support the Perfect Match program at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center. The protester argues that, in lieu of procuring the services competitively, the agency should have awarded a sole-source contract to the protester. The protester also objects to the agency's decision to award the contract on a lowest- priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) basis. Finally, V2W objects to the agency's alleged use of V2W's work as the basis for the solicitation's statement of work. 1 No protective order was issued in this protest because V2W elected to proceed with its protest without counsel. A full version of the agency report was provided to our Office, (continued...)

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