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B-413837 1 (2016-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsxr0001 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: NTELX, Inc. File: B-413837 Date: December 28, 2016 William M. Weisberg, Esq., Law Offices of William Weisberg, for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Megan C. Connor, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for TTW Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Melissa Buford, Esq., Consumer Product Safety Commission, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly awarded a sole-source contract through the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program is denied where the record does not show bad faith on the part of government officials. DECISION NTELX, Inc., a small business of Vienna, Virginia, protests the award of a sole-source contract to TTW Solutions Inc., an 8(a) small business of Potomac, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. CPSC-Q-1 5-0060, which was issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for operation and maintenance of CPSC's international trade data system risk assessment methodology (RAM) software system. The protester contends that CPSC acted in bad faith when it improperly awarded the sole-source contract to TTW under the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) 8(a) program in violation of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 6 requirements for full and open competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 19, 2010, CPSC issued an 8(a) sole-source award for development of a RAM 1.0 system. Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 1-2; Agency Request for Dismissal at 3. The purpose of the RAM system is to identify the potential risk of shipments of consumer products at U.S. ports of entry. Id. NTELX was a

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