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B-416226,B-416226.2 1 (2018-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvgi0001 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: Performance Value Management, LLC File: B-416226; B-416226.2 Date: July 12, 2018 Fred W. Geldon, Esq., Paul R. Hurst, Esq., and Caitlin T. Conroy, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for the protester. Eden Brown Gaines, Esq., Brown Gaines, LLC, for Graham Technologies, LLC, the intervenor. Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., Department of the Army, and Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency and the Small Business Administration (SBA) violated regulations in accepting work into the SBA's 8(a) contracting program is denied where the record fails to establish that the protester suffered prejudice as a result of alleged inadequacies in the contracting agency's initial offering letters to SBA. DECISION Performance Value Management, LLC (PVM), a small business located in Fairfax, Virginia, protests a decision by the Department of the Army and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to place two requirements, currently performed by PVM as a single requirement under SBA's 8(a) Business Development (BD) program, for award under the 8(a) program, to two other contractors on a sole-source basis. PVM argues that the Army's offering letters of the two requirements to SBA, and the SBA's resulting decision to accept the requirements, violated applicable regulations. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 18, 2016, the Army awarded contract No. W15QKN-16-C-0015 to PVM via a competitive 8(a) source selection under the SBA's section 8(a) program, for project management operations services (PMOS) in support of the Project Management Office for Department of Defense (DoD) Biometrics located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. PVM's

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