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B-292247,B-292247.2 1 (2003-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyjs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General . .Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Rochester Optical Manufacturing Company File: B-292247; B-292247.2 Date: August 6, 2003 Robert G. Fryling, Esq., and Edward J. Hoffman, Esq., Blank Rome, for the protester. Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., U.S. Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency decision not to set aside procurement for small business concerns is sustained where decision was based on insufficient efforts to ascertain small business interest and capability to perform the requirement. DECISION Rochester Optical Manufacturing Company protests the decision of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to issue on an unrestricted basis request for proposals (RFP) No. 626-09-03, for eyeglass fabrication and on-site eyeglass fittings in its Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 9, which includes seven locations in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Rochester, a small business concern, argues that the requirement should be set aside for small businesses, essentially contending that the agency failed to undertake sufficient efforts to ascertain small business interest and capability to perform the requirement. We sustain the protest. 'In developing the protest record, our Office conducted a recorded telephone hearing in which the VA's contracting officer testified. Since there is not a written transcript of this hearing, references in this decision to the hearing are to the approximate point on the cassette recorder's numerical tape counter (TC at _).

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