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B-407367 1 (2012-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpgi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~GAO Ir, AccoaI ntbilty intgrlty , ReiiabiIty United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L ................................................................................................................. Swank Healthcare B-407367 December 12, 2012 William M. Weisberg, Esq., and Liana W. Yung, Esq., Bryan Cave LLP, for the protester. Jo Spence, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, 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 small business set-aside decision under a procurement conducted pursuant to the Federal Supply Schedule procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 8.4 is denied where the protester does not show that the agency violated any law or regulation. DECISION Swank Healthcare, of St. Louis, Missouri, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA777-12-Q-0257, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for commercial off-the-shelf online courses. Swank, a large business concern, complains that the RFQ should not have been set aside for small businesses. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 8.4 as a small business set-side, sought a minimum of 500 commercial off-the-shelf clinical online courses for 100,000 Veterans Health Administration healthcare providers and staff covering multiple

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