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B-407020 1 (2012-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpoj0001 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 I The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision approved forpublic release. Matter of: Blue Ridge Limousine and Tour Service, Inc. File: B-407020 Date: October 19, 2012 Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., General Counsel PC, for the protester. Capt. Matthew E. Dyson, Department of the Army, and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly accepted Army shuttle bus services requirement into the 8(a) program without first determining whether acceptance would adversely impact the protester--the incumbent 8(a) contractor who had graduated from the 8(a) program--is denied where the SBA determined that the requirement was a follow-on to the previous 8(a) contract and that therefore no adverse impact analysis was required. DECISION Blue Ridge Limousine and Tour Service, Inc., of Springfield, Virginia, protests the terms of solicitation No. W9133L-12-R-0048 for shuttle bus services in the Arlington, Virginia area, issued by the National Guard Bureau (NGB). Blue Ridge argues that the solicitation was improperly set-aside as an 8(a) competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 1, 2008, NGB awarded Blue Ridge noncompetitive contract No. W9133L-08-D-0018 (-0018) under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program for the provision of shuttle bus services. The contract provided for a base year and four 1-year option periods, which were to run through

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