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B-416223.4,B-416223.5 1 (2018-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvik0001 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: Tactical Shipping, LLC. File: B-416223.4; B-416223.5 Date: September 5, 2018 Frank V. Reilly, Esq., Frank V. Reilly Attorney at Law, for the protester. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Robert Bowers, Esq., and Peter Ries, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's rejection of offeror's proposal because offeror did not have a Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) was a negative responsibility determination that the agency was required to refer to the Small Business Administration under its certificate of competency procedures is denied where participation in VISA program is not a matter of responsibility. DECISION Tactical Shipping, LLC, a small business of Greenwich, Connecticut, protests the rejection of its proposal, submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. HTC711-18-R-W002, which was issued by the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) for sealift transportation services. Tactical asserts that the agency rejected its proposal because Tactical was not a Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) participant, which, according to Tactical, is a responsibility determination that had to be referred to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for a certificate of competency (COC) review. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency posted the solicitation, a small business set-aside, on the federal business opportunities website on March 6, 2018. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 7. The closing date for the receipt of proposals was April 5. Agency Report (AR), Tab 19, RFP, at 1. The solicitation provided that the contract would be awarded to the offeror

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