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B-420858.4 Mar 08, 2023 1 (2023-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaoojp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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: Kizano Corporation File: B-420858.4 Date: March 8, 2023 William T. Welch, Esq., and Orest J. Jowyk, Esq., Reston Law Group, LLP, for the protester. Brendan O'Donnell, Strategic Ventures Consulting Group, LLC, for the intervenor. Aleia Barlow, Esq., and Catherine Gilabert, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly excluded protester's proposal from consideration under a tier set-aside exclusively for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) is denied where the protester's subcontractor was not listed as a verified SDVOSB in the applicable database. DECISION Kizano Corporation, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Woodbridge, Virginia, protests its exclusion from consideration for award as a tier 1 offeror, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C10X21 R0022, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for general management and business support services. The protester argues that the VA misclassified Kizano's status as a tier 3 offeror, instead of a tier 1 offeror. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on February 8, 2021, for a broad range of general management and business support services and solutions as part of the agency's Veteran Enterprise Contracting for Transformation and Operational Readiness (VECTOR) procurement. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2; see Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFP at 6. Through the VECTOR procurement, the agency sought

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