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B-421614 Jul 24, 2023 1 (2023-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaopbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Amentum Services, Inc. File: B-421614 Date: July 24, 2023 Robert Nichols, Esq., Michael Bhargava, Esq., Sam Van Kopp, Esq., and Madison Plummer, Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for the protester. Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest by a large business protester challenging the agency's award of a sole-source contract under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) program is dismissed where the protester acknowledges that it does not challenge whether the requirement was properly and reasonably offered to SBA by the agency and accepted by SBA into the 8(a) program. DECISION Amentum Services, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the Department of State's award of a sole-source contract under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program1 to MEC Energy Services, LLC, of New Town, North Dakota, for operations and maintenance services. Amentum, a large business, raises various allegations about the award to MEC, a tribal 8(a) small business. We dismiss the protest. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the SBA to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for performance of those contracts through subcontracts with socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.800. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) program.

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