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B-415411 1 (2018-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadugy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Office Design Group File: B-415411 Date: January 3, 2018 Joseph A. Whitcomb, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe, PC, for the protester. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., and Tobias D. Hunziker, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is timely when filed within 10 days of resolution of an agency-level protest and raises the same issue. 2. Protest alleging an ambiguity in a solicitation is sustained where the removal of a mandatory contract clause created two reasonable interpretations concerning whether the procurement was set aside for competition among service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. DECISION Office Design Group (ODG), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concern of Irvine, California, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA701-17-R-0094, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for furniture and installation-related services at the VA's Puget Sound Mental Health and Research Building in Seattle, Washington. The protester alleges that an amendment to the RFP created an ambiguity and that the time given to respond to the solicitation was unreasonably short. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On July 13, 2017, the VA posted a pre-solicitation notice to the FedBizOps website notifying prospective offerors of its intent to solicit the required items and services as a total SDVOSB set-aside. Agency Report (AR), Tab 9, VA701-17-R-00942 pre-

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