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B-410936 1 (2015-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Crosstown Courier Service, Inc. File: B-410936 Date: March 12, 2015 Christopher J. Noyes, for the protester. Natica C. Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's decision not to set aside a procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concerns is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research that it did not have an expectation of receiving proposals from two or more SDVOSB concerns capable of performing the required services. DECISION Crosstown Courier Service, Inc., of Chicopee, Massachusetts, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA263-14-R-361 0, a small business set-aside, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for courier services for the Minneapolis VA Health Care System (MVAHCS). Crosstown, a service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB) concern, argues that the VA should have set the procurement aside for SDVOSB concerns. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP seeks proposals for all necessary labor, equipment, and transportation services for pick-up and delivery each weekday between the MVAHCS and 10 VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) located throughout Minnesota and

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