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B-421610.2 May 31, 2023 1 (2023-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaootg0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Karthik Consulting, LLC File: B-421610.2 Date: May 31, 2023 Nicole Pottroff, Esq., Shane M. McCall, Esq., Stephanie L. Ellis, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., and Gregory P. Weber, Esq., Koprince, McCall & Pottroff, LLC, for the protester. C. Peter Dungan, Esq., Adam Bartolanzo, Esq., and Lauren S. Fleming, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., for Zen Strategics, LLC, the intervenor. Beth Sturgess, Esq., and Richard W. Postma, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Post-award protest challenging the protester's exclusion from the competition because it was not currently an 8(a) small business is dismissed where the solicitation was patently ambiguous with respect to whether it was set aside for 8(a) small businesses. DECISION Karthik Consulting, LLC, a small business of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Zen Strategics, LLC, an 8(a)1 small business of Vienna, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) 71 SBUR23Q00000018 pursuant to the General Services Administration (GSA) highly adaptive cybersecurity services multiple award schedule (HACS MAS) issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for cybersecurity services. The protester contends that the agency erred in excluding it from the competition because the RFQ did not require vendors to be active 8(a) program participants at the time of quotation submission. 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 business concerns. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.800. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) program.

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