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B-413298 1 (2016-09-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsnw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: InfoReliance Corporation File: B-413298 Date: September 19, 2016 William A. Shook, Esq., Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester. William D. Robinson, Esq., and Sarah Bloom, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons; Sam Q. Le, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration; and Michael D. Tully, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, 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; the decision whether to set aside such an order is within the discretion of the contracting agency. DECISION InfoReliance Corporation, of Fairfax, Virginia, a large business concern, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQP0700NAS160879A, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), to holders of General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for Amazon Web Services. InfoReliance argues that the agency's decision to set aside the procurement for small business concerns was unreasonable because no small business will be able to comply with the limitation on subcontracting for the required services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued under the FSS procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 as a small business set-aside, sought Amazon Web Services

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