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B-406101,B-406101.2,B-406101.3 1 (2012-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadorq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AlG A O Comptroller General ,!7 = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Kevcon, Inc. File: B-406101; B-406101.2; B-406101.3 Date: February 6, 2012 William L. Bruckner, Esq., Bruckner & Walker, LLP, for the protester. Shaquana L. Cooper, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, 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 Kevcon, Inc., of Escondido, California, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA-1 01-11 -RP-01 82, issued by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) for construction services at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington. Kevcon, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), contends that the VA failed to perform sufficient market research to ascertain the interest and capability of SDVOSBs to perform the requirement. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on October 18, 2011, as a small business set-aside, provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for various construction services at the Tahoma National Cemetery. Among other things, the contractor will provide services supporting demolition, removal of debris, and erosion control, and provide labor and materials for the construction of roadways, bridges, columbaria, crypts, cremains, memorial walls, landscaping, irrigation, and utilities. RFP at 4. The RFP identified North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 237990, Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction, as being applicable to this procurement. Id.

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