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B-419346 1 (2021-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeclb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: CRAssociates, Inc. File: B-419346 Date: January 21, 2021 Matthew R. Keller, Esq., Praemia Law, PLLC, for the protester. Daniel J. McFeely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's decision to set aside the procurement for service- disabled veteran-owned small businesses is denied where the agency had a reasonable expectation that offers would be received from at least two such firms and that award would be made at a fair and reasonable price. DECISION CRAssociates, Inc. of Newington, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C26220R0128, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to provide medical services at a community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) in Escondido, California. The protester challenges the agency's decision to set aside the procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued as a total SDVOSB set-aside on June 29, 2020, contemplates the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a base period of one year and up to nine 1-year option periods. Agency Report (AR), exh.1, RFP at 3.1 The successful contractor will provide CBOC services in support of the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Id. at 9. The solicitation requires services for an estimated 4,447 patients per month during the base year and increasing to an estimated 4,859 patients 1 All citations to the record refer to the Bates number.

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