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B-405781.3 1 (2012-07-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Trident3, LLC File: B-405781.3 Date: July 5, 2012 Allen Perkins, Esq., A. Perkins Law Firm, LLC, for the protester. Gregory Kreutzberg, Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command; John W. Klein, Esq., Sam Q. Le, Esq., and Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contract award terminated pursuant to negative size status determination should be reinstated following successful appeal to the Small Business Administration, Office of Hearings and Appeals, is denied where contracting agency followed all applicable regulations in terminating the award, and properly solicited revised proposals from all offerors. DECISION Trident3, LLC, protests the solicitation of new proposals by the Department of the Navy in connection with request for proposals (RFP) No. N00189-11-R-0027, issued as a small business set-aside under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program, for weather observation and forecasting services at 21 naval air stations, outlying landing fields, and auxiliary landing fields. We deny the protest. The Navy originally issued this requirement as RFP No. N001 89-1 0-R-0030 in April 2010, and made an award in January 2011. Following that award however, another competitor filed a size status protest at the SBA, as well as a protest at our Office. The Navy ultimately took corrective action in that matter, and our Office dismissed the protest. The Navy then issued the present RFP for the requirement on May 24, 2011, and made an award to Trident on August 30. However, after discovering an error in the

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