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B-419865.2,B-419865.3 Nov 10, 2021 1 (2021-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaomks0001 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: Team GOV, Inc. File: B-419865.2; B-419865.3 Date: November 10, 2021 Sean Trice, Esq., and Ralph C. Thomas III, Esq., Mesh Law, LLC, for the protester. Robert Notigan, Esq., and Alexis N. Webster, Esq., General Services Adminsitration; and Mark Hagedorn, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that an agency improperly removed requirements from Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) program without seeking release from the SBA is denied where the record shows that the solicitation was for a new requirement. 2. Protest that an agency, in a solicitation for the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA), failed to meet the statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to bundling is denied where the requirements do not apply to BPAs. DECISION TeamGOV, Inc., a small business of Landover, Maryland, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47PD0121 Q0007, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for facilities engineering, operation and maintenance (O&M), and related services at four locations in Suitland, Maryland. The protester alleges that the agency improperly removed the requirements from the 8(a) program without seeking approval from the Small Business Administration (SBA) in accordance with applicable regulations.1 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the SBA to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for performance of those contracts through subcontracts with socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.800. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) Business Development program (or simply 8(a) program).

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