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B-418647 1 (2020-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we D ecision Iare therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: AGMA Security Service, Inc. File: B-418647 Date: June 24, 2020 Alan Grayson, Esq., Law Office of Alan Grayson; and Alberto Fuertes Masarovic, Esq., Law Office of Alberto Fuertes Masarovic, for the protester. Howard W. Miller, Esq., and Denise A. McLane, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly extended and increased the maximum value of the incumbent contract for protective security officer services is dismissed as untimely where the protest was filed more than 10 days after the agency posted a notice stating its intention to continue to obtain services from the incumbent contractor on the basis that the incumbent was the only source able to meet the agency's requirements. DECISION AGMA Security Service, Inc., of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, a small business, protests the extension of a contract awarded to The COGAR Group, Ltd., of Falls Church, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service, for armed protective security officer (PSO) services at Customs and Border Protection facilities in Puerto Rico. AGMA argues that DHS lacks a valid justification to extend COGAR's contract on a sole-source basis. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND AGMA challenges a modification, issued on March 25, 2020 and valued at $4.7 million, to COGAR's existing contract for PSO services. The modification extends from

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