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B-413310,B-413310.2,B-413310.3 1 (2016-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadspl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: B&D Consulting, Inc. File: B-413310; B-413310.2; B-413310.3 Date: September 30, 2016 Gary J. Campbell, Esq., and G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the protester. Sarah L. Carroll, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Adminstration, for the agencies. Young S. Lee, Esq., Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly accepted a requirement into the 8(a) program without first determining whether doing so would have an adverse impact on existing small business concerns is denied where the requirement qualifies as new under SBA's regulations, and consequently, no adverse impact analysis was required. 2. Protest that the SBA is precluded from accepting a requirement into the 8(a) program because the requirement was alleged to have been previously solicited as a small business set-aside is denied where the requirement is new and was not previously advertised. 3. Protest that solicitation should have been issued as a competitive 8(a) set-aside is denied where the anticipated value of the award does not exceed the threshold above which competition is required. DECISION B&D Consulting, Inc., a small business of Columbia, Maryland, protests the decision by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to offer a requirement for technology environment management support and outreach services under SBA's section 8(a) business development (BD) program solely to Allegheny Science and Technology Corporation, a small business of Weston, West Virginia, through the issuance of request for proposal (RFP) No. HC1 047-16-R-4017. B&D argues that the agency's

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