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B-407022,B-407022.2 1 (2012-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpcd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 version with no redactions has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Walden Security File: B-407022; B-407022.2 Date: October 10, 2012 John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Armani Vadiee, Esq., and Rhina M. Cardenal, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Jeffrey E. Weinstein, Esq., The Weinstein Law Group, PLLC, for Millennium Security Service, Inc., an intervenor. Elise Harris, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's decision to set aside a procurement for small businesses is denied where the record shows that the contracting officer reasonably expected that at least two responsible small business concerns would compete for the award and that award would be made at a fair market price. DECISION Metropolitan Security Services, Inc. d/b/a Walden Security, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, protests the decision of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to issue request for quotations (RFQ) No. 2012-Q-14617, for security guard services at various locations in the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, area, as a small business set-aside. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The CDC operates facilities at four federally-owned campuses, and utilizes multiple leased office facilities, in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Security must be provided at all of these facilities. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1. Walden, a large

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