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B-417834 1 (2019-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzw0001 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: Alphapointe File: B-417834 Date: September 4, 2019 Dana Pashkoff, Esq., and Jessica Abrahams, Esq., Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, for the protester. Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Quality Innovation, Inc., the intervenor. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging award of contract to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concern is dismissed as an untimely challenge to the agency's decision to issue the solicitation as a total SDVOSB set-aside where: (1) the protester alleges that the agency failed to conduct a Rule of Two analysis in accordance with the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006, 38 U.S.C. §§ 8127-8128, and (2) the protest was filed after closing of the solicitation. DECISION Alphapointe, of Kansas City, Missouri, protests the award of a contract to Quality Innovation, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concern of Austin, Texas, under solicitation No. 36C-25519-Q-00004, issued by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), for switchboard telephone operator services for the Kansas City VA Medical Center. The protester argues that the award of the contract to a SDVOSB was improper because the agency failed to conduct a Rule of Two analysis to determine where there are two or more qualified SDVOSBs capable of performing the work under the contract in accordance with the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and

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