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B-294936 1 (2005-01-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqtb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Catapult Technology, Ltd. File: B-294936; B-294936.2 Date: January 13, 2005 Cyrus E. Phillips IV, Esq., for the protester. Timothy B. Mills, Esq., and Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, for Bowhead Information Technology Services, an intervenor. Terence W. Carlson, Esq., Department of Transportation, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth W. Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly accepted information technology services requirement into section 8(a) business development program is denied where, under the SBA's interpretation of its regulation, the protester does not appear to meet the condition for a presumption that accepting the requirement would cause it adverse impact and the applicable regulation does not preclude the SBA from deciding to accept a consolidated requirement into the section 8(a) business development program, even if the adverse impact presumption is met. DECISION Catapult Technology, Ltd. protests the decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to contract with Bowhead Information Technology Services, an Alaskan Native Corporation, under the SBA's section 8(a) business development program for information technology (IT) infrastructure operations and maintenance services at the DOT headquarters in Washington, DC.' Catapult, which was performing some of the offered services prior 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act authorizes the SBA to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for performance of such contracts by awarding subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns. 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (2000).

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