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B-419438 1 (2020-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecfi0001 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: Quanterion Solutions, Inc. File: B-419438 Date: December 28, 2020 Bret S. Wacker, Esq., Clark Hill PLC, and Evan A. Rossi, Rossi & Rossi, PLLC, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Alissandra D. Young, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Kapili Services, LLC, the intervenor. Judith L. Richardson, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that Small Business Administration improperly accepted a requirement into the 8(a) program without performing an adverse impact analysis on existing small business concerns is dismissed as untimely where the record shows that the protester knew or should have known of the factual basis for its allegation more than 10 days prior to raising it. DECISION Quanterion Solutions, Inc. (QSI), a small business of Utica, New York, protests the decision of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to place a requirement for support services to the Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC) under SBA's section 8(a) business development program. QSI argues SBA improperly accepted this requirement into the 8(a) program without first determining whether acceptance would adversely impact small businesses. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND On July 8, 2020, the agency posted a notice on beta.SAM.gov, stating that DTRA planned to set aside its DTRIAC requirement for fiscal years 2021-2026 as a direct award to an 8(a) small business concern that would be named on a later date. Req. for

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