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B-419691 Jun 24, 2021 1 (2021-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaomaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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: RCG of North Carolina, LLC File: B-419691 Date: June 24, 2021 Alan Grayson, Esq., for the protester. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., and Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of short-term, sole-source awards to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business by the Department of Veterans Affairs is denied where the awards were properly made under the authority of the Veterans First Contracting Program. DECISION RCG of North Carolina, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), of Raeford, North Carolina, protests the award of three short-term, sole-source contracts to RAS Enterprise, LLC, also an SDVOSB, of Gulfport, Mississippi, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for medical grade bulk liquid oxygen and associated services. The protester alleges that the sole-source awards violate procurement law, and the agency should have competed the requirements amongst SDVOSBs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA has a requirement for the provision of medical grade bulk liquid oxygen for medical facilities within its Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. According to the agency, medical facilities performing procedures such as surgery or colonoscopy--where the patient is either unconscious or sedated short of unconsciousness--need supplemental oxygen to maintain metabolism and organ function. Id., attach. 1, Mission Impact Statement at ¶ 4. Healthcare facilities use medical grade liquid oxygen, a concentrated pure form of oxygen without contaminants, to meet the patients' needs. Id. Because these procedures are

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