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B-418618,B-418618.2 1 (2020-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebio0001 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. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Superior Optical Labs, Inc. File: B-418618; B-418618.2 Date: July 7, 2020 J. Dale Gipson, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Elizabeth H. Connally, Esq., Connally Law, for the protester. Emily S. Theriault, Esq., David S. Gallacher, Esq., and Adam Bartolanzo, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for PDS Consultants, Inc., the intervenor. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs; and Sam Q. Le, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Heather Self, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest arguing that award was improper because the agency knew, or should have known, that the awardee did not qualify as a small business is dismissed because the face of the awardee's proposal did not suggest that it was other than a small business and the protester's allegations otherwise amount to a challenge of the awardee's size status which is a matter reserved for the Small Business Administration. DECISION Superior Optical Labs, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, protests the award of a contract on a sole-source basis to PDS Consultants, Inc., an SDVOSB of Sparta, New Jersey, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for prescription eyeglasses and optician services. The protester contends that PDS was not a responsible source eligible to receive the protested award because PDS does not qualify as a small business concern for purposes of the protested procurement. The protester further argues that the VA failed to conduct adequate market research to determine whether PDS qualified as a small business concern. We dismiss the protest.

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