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B-403067 1 (2010-09-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JlL A , GA O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: ONS21 Security Services File: B-403067 Date: September 16, 2010 P.J. Rowdon for the protester. Brian A. Darst, Esq., Odin Feldman Pittleman PC, for the intervenor. Michael G. McCormack, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under small business set-aside, where award was made to an offeror determined to be a small business by the Small Business Administration's (SBA) area office in response to a size status protest, contracting agency was not required under applicable regulations to terminate the contract based on a subsequent reversal of the area office's size determination by SBA's Office of Hearings and Appeals. DECISION ONS21 Security Services, of Edgewood, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Trinity Technology Group, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8630-09-R-5080, issued by the Department of the Air Force for communications security (COMSEC) support services for the Government of Pakistan. The protester contends that the agency improperly failed to terminate the award after the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) reversed a formal size determination issued by an SBA area office finding that the awardee qualified as a small business. We deny the protest. The agency published a presolicitation synopsis on the FedBizOpps website on August 31, 2009, announcing that the RFP would be issued under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, which has a small business size standard of $7 million. Subsequent to the notice, the contracting officer determined that, since the RFP's performance work statement was more complex than those in routine COMSEC

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