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B-299660.2 1 (2007-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaufw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Operational Support & Services File: B-299660.2 Date: September 24, 2007 Joan K. F. Fiorino, Esq., and John C. Dulske, Esq., Dulske & Fiorino, for the protester. Bruce N. Edwards, Esq., and Michael R. Sorensen, Esq., Sorensen & Edwards, for Shee Atika Languages, the intervenor. John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration. Maj. David Abdalla, and Capt. Robert B. Nelson, Department of the Army, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Noncompetitive award under Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program was unobjectionable where meeting requirement under 8(a) program did not violate statute or regulation. DECISION Operational Support & Services (OSS) protests the award of Department of the Army, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), contract No. H92222-07-D-0021, to Shee Atika Languages (SAL), for comprehensive foreign language interpretation, transcription, reporting and translation services. OSS asserts that the USSOCOM acted in bad faith and in violation of applicable regulations in making the award to SAL on a sole-source basis under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program. We deny the protest. On December 28, 2006, USSOCOM issued a presolicitation notice on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOps) website announcing its intention to issue, within 30 days, a solicitation for comprehensive foreign language interpretation, transcription, reporting and translation services in support of Special Operations Forces (SOF) operational requirements worldwide. At the time of the notice, Worldwide Language Resources, Inc. was providing the services to be procured

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