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B-416570 1 (2018-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvfr0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Signature Consulting Group, LLC File: B-416570 Date: October 18, 2018 Jerry A. Miles, Esq., and Lan Jin, Esq., Deale Services, LLC, for the protester. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Linda Santiago, Esq, and Douglas Kornreich, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester is not an interested party to challenge alleged violations of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) Business Development (BD) program where protester graduated from the 8(a) program and protester has not demonstrated that it would be eligible for award of requirement under the 8(a) program. 2. Protest alleging bias and bad faith on the part of the agency is denied where protester does not support its allegations with convincing proof, and the record does not otherwise reflect bias or bad faith. DECISION Signature Consulting Group, LLC, a small business located in Windsor Mill, Maryland, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 181823, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for Medicare and Medicaid support services. Signature, which is a small business that recently graduated from the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) Business Development (BD) program, asserts that some of the anticipated work under the RFQ originates from a contract under the 8(a) program for which Signature is currently the prime contractor. The protester challenges the agency's decision to remove this work from the 8(a) program, asserting that the agency's actions violated procurement regulations and were in bad faith. We dismiss in part and deny in part the protest. On September 25, 2013, Signature was awarded a contract by CMS for the Physicians Quality Measures Management (PQMM) program (contract No. HHSM-500-2013-

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