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B-422779 Sep 20, 2024 1 (2024-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqvf0001 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 Decision Matter of: Excelsior Ambulance Service, Inc. File: B-422779 Date: September 20, 2024 William M. Weisberg, Esq., Law Offices of William Weisberg, for the protester. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Suresh S. Boodram, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. 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 from two or more SDVOSBs capable of performing the required services. DECISION Excelsior Ambulance Service, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Ludowici, Georgia, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C24724R0057, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the provision of ambulance and stretcher van services to the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center (CWAMC) in Dublin, Georgia. Excelsior asserts that the VA should have issued the RFP as a SDVOSB set-aside rather than as a small business set-aside. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA issued the RFP on July 18, 2024, as a small business set-aside pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 15. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 2, RFP at 1, 82; Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 1-2. The RFP sought proposals for emergent and non-emergent ambulance and stretcher van services to

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