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B-421680 Jul 24, 2023 1 (2023-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaooyo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Daniels Building Company, Inc. File: B-421680 Date: July 24, 2023 Marcus R. Sanborn, Esq., Blevins Sanborn Jezdimir Zack PLC, for the protester. Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Peter B. Ford, Esq., and Daniel J. Figuenick, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for CAVU-Roncelli Construction JV-10 LLC, the intervenor. Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Anh-Thi H. Le, and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the awardee's bid should have been rejected as nonresponsive because it failed to include a valid signature on a material certification is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably concluded that the certification was signed and the signature was both discrete and verifiable. DECISION Daniels Building Company, Inc. (Daniels), a small business of Farmington Hills, Michigan, protests the award of a contract to CAVU-Roncelli Construction JV-10 LLC (CAVU-Roncelli), a small business of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 36C25023B0003 for the addition of emergency power to the Ann Arbor Michigan VA Medical Center (VAMC) central chiller plant. The protester alleges that the awardee's bid should have been rejected for failing to comply with the solicitation's requirement to provide a signed limitation on subcontracting certificate. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On January 5, 2023, the agency issued the IFB as a set-aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses for the addition of emergency power to the Ann Arbor Michigan VAMC central chiller plant. See Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement of Facts (COS) (June 5, 2023) at 2; IFB at 6. The IFB contemplated the award of a fixed-price

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