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B-422254 Feb 26, 2024 1 (2024-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaopza0001 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: DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Inc. File: B-422254 Date: February 26, 2024 Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Government Procurement Lawyer, LLC, for the protester. Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Matthew L. Nicholson, Esq., Potomac Law Group, PLLC, for AdaptiveVets, Inc., the intervenor. Ronald J. Bakay, Esq., and Tobias Hunziker, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Allegations based on information contained in the award notice are dismissed as untimely because they were untimely asserted in the agency-level protest; the debriefing exception to GAO's timeliness regulations is not applicable to agency-level protests. 2. Protest that the contracting officer unreasonably failed to challenge the status of the awardee as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) at the Small Business Administration is dismissed where the information giving rise to the allegation that the awardee was ineligible to be considered an SDVOSB was not apparent on the face of the awardee's quotation. DECISION DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis, Inc., of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the issuance of a task order to AdaptiveVets, Inc., of West Melbourne, Florida, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C10B23Q0434, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Surgery Office (NSO), for technical application support for NSO systems. The protester challenges the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation of the awardee's quotation and asserts that the contracting officer's failure to pursue a challenge to the awardee's status at the Small Business Administration (SBA) was an abuse of discretion. We dismiss the protest.

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