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B-402086.6,B-402086.7 1 (2010-09-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbmy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: TCBA Watson Rice, LLP File: B-402086.6; B-402086.7 Date: September 8, 2010 Janice Davis, Esq., Davis & Steele, for the protester. Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., and Megan Mocho Jeschke, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Diversified Capital, Inc., an intervenor. Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rated protester's quotation for loan review services as marginal under the management approach/personnel/experience and technical approach evaluation factors, where the agency reasonably determined that protester's proposed staffing, a critical requirement, was unrealistically low for the work to be performed. DECISION TCBA Watson Rice, LLP (TCBA), of New York, New York, protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and task order to Diversified Capital, Inc. (DCI), of Pasadena, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SBAHQ-09-A-0024, issued by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for risk-based loan review services. TCBA challenges the SBA's evaluation and selection decision as unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 636 (2006), authorizes the SBA to make or guarantee loans to eligible small business concerns. In furtherance of this purpose, the SBA has entered into agreements with private lenders and certified development companies, permitting them to make SBA-guaranteed loans to small businesses. The SBA conducts periodic on-site risk-based reviews of these

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