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B-411190 1 (2015-06-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadref0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Nationwide Value Computer, Inc. File: B-411190 Date: June 11, 2015 David Cicchitti for the protester. Chinedum U. Okparaeke, Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined that protester was not eligible for an award under a procurement set aside for small business concerns where the protester's representations and certifications in the System for Award Management indicated that it was not a small business. DECISION Nationwide Value Computer, Inc. (Nationwide), of Norristown, Pennsylvania, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Better Direct, LLC, under request for quotations No. N00024-14-R-5143, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), for information technology support. Nationwide argues that the purchase order should have been issued to Nationwide because it submitted the lowest-price. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. NAVSEA issued the combined synopsis/solicitation as a total small business set- aside under North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code 334118. The synopsis/solicitation was published using the FedBid website, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items.' The solicitation contemplated 1 FedBid, Inc. is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a website at FedBid.com which, among other things, hosts reverse auctions. FedBid (continued...)

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