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B-406703 1 (2012-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoxc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: MCB Lighting & Electrical File: B-406703 Date: July 13, 2012 Charles M. Baker for the protester. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where protester fails to demonstrate that contracting agency failed to comply with Small Business Administration (SBA) regulations in offering a requirement to the SBA as a sole-source award under the 8(a) program and requesting that the award be made to an 8(a) firm other than the protester. DECISION MCB Lighting & Electrical (MCB), of Owings, Maryland, protests the decision by the Department of the Air Force to nominate Utility Systems Solutions (US2), of Dallas, Texas, rather than itself, to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for award of a sole-source contract under the 8(a) program. The protester argues that the Air Force improperly failed to advise SBA of its interest in the requirement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The acquisition at issue here is for Light Emitting Diode (LED) street and parking lot lights for 15 Air Force installations across the United States and abroad. The Air Force reports that it has been investigating the requirement and working to establish technical specifications since about 2009, and that, in March 2011, it issued a sources sought notice seeking to identify potential vendors, collect information regarding their products and company capabilities, and give industry the opportunity to comment on the proposed specification. Both MCB and US2 expressed interest in the acquisition. MCB's interest was conveyed in a letter from SBA's Baltimore

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