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B-419956.301 May 11, 2023 1 (2023-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaoord0001 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 V V been approved for public release. Matter of: Infotrend Inc. File: B-419956.301 Date: May 11, 2023 Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., and Orest Jowyk, Esq., Reston Law Group, LLP, for the protester. Martin A. McEnrue, Esq., Karyne Constance Akhtar, Esq. Krystal A. Jordan, Esq., and Kevin Misener, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is dismissed as untimely because it was filed more than 10 days after the protester knew or should have known of the grounds for protest. Although the protester received an email containing a pre-award debriefing that disclosed the basis for the protest outside of normal business hours, the protester opened the email, and therefore had notice of its contents. DECISION Infotrend Inc., an 8(a)1 small business, of College Park, Maryland, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), under request for proposals (RFP) No. 75N98121 R00001, which was issued for the award of multiple indefinite- delivery, indefinite-quantity governmentwide acquisition contracts for information technology (IT) services, known as Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4). The protester argues that the agency improperly failed to advance its proposal from phase 1 to phase 2 of the competition under the 8(a) small business category. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to enter into contracts with government agencies and to arrange for performance through subcontracts with socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 19.8. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) program.

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