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B-408685.18 1 (2019-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvns0001 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: Ekagra Partners, LLC File: B-408685.18 Date: February 15, 2019 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., and Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. Stephen O'Neal, Esq., General Services Administration, and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging a solicitation term that limits the number of experience projects that may be submitted in a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture's proposal for a large business mentor firm is denied where the solicitation term is not prohibited by procurement laws or regulations and where the agency provides a reasonable basis for its inclusion. 2. Protest challenging a solicitation term as unduly restrictive of competition where the term prohibits a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture from submitting a proposal as part of a contractor teaming arrangement that includes additional subcontractors is sustained where, although the solicitation term is not prohibited by procurement laws or regulations, the agency does not provide a reasonable basis for its inclusion. DECISION Ekagra Partners, LLC, of Leesburg, Virginia, a small business, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. GSOOQ-1 3-DR-0002, which was issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Information Technology Service, for award of new contracts in the agency's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)-- small business pool of government-wide multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity (IDIQ) contracts. The protester argues that the solicitation includes terms that improperly restrict competition by limiting the ways in which a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture may submit proposals. We sustain in part and deny in part the protest.

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