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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                             of the United States




Decision


Matter of: Veterans2Work, Inc.

File:        B-416935

Date:     January 9, 2019

John Reynolds for the protester.
Melody A. Goldberg, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs,
for the agency.
Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation and the ground rules under which the
competition was conducted is dismissed as untimely where the protest was filed after
the award of the contract.

2. Protest alleging that the agency improperly released the company's sensitive
information as part of the solicitation is denied where the record reflects that the
protester offered to provide the information to the agency for the express purpose of
including the information in the solicitation's statement of work.
DECISION

Veterans2Work, Inc. (V2W), of Novato, California, protests the award of a contract
to Predictive Index Arizona, Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona, under request for
quotations (RFQ) No. 36C250-18-Q-9856, issued by the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) for services to support the Perfect Match program at the Chillicothe VA
Medical Center. The protester argues that, in lieu of procuring the services
competitively, the agency should have awarded a sole-source contract to the protester.
The protester also objects to the agency's decision to award the contract on a lowest-
priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) basis. Finally, V2W objects to the agency's
alleged use of V2W's work as the basis for the solicitation's statement of work.


1 No protective order was issued in this protest because V2W elected to proceed with its
protest without counsel. A full version of the agency report was provided to our Office,
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