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B-405187 1 (2011-08-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbya0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Vetsummit, LLC File: B-405187 Date: August 29, 2011 Peter D. Brosse, Esq., and Sarah M. Duffy, Esq., Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis, for the protester. Lisa Marie Clark, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs; and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., U.S. Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's bid is denied where agency referred concerns over the protester's responsibility to the Small Business Administration (SBA), which declined to issue a certificate of competency, and where the protester's claim that the SBA had failed to consider vital information bearing on the protester's responsibility lacked merit. DECISION Vetsummit, LLC, of Chesterland, Ohio, a small business, protests the award of a contract to JJW Construction, LLC, of Powell, Ohio, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under invitation for bids (lFB) No. VA-250-1 0-IB-01 66 for construction services to renovate the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Wade Park Campus, in Cleveland, Ohio. Vetsummit argues that it submitted the lowest-priced bid, but that the VA rejected the bid after unreasonably concluding that Vetsummit was not responsible and was not an eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concern under the set-aside terms of the IFB. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA issued the IFB on June 25, 2010, seeking bids to perform specified renovations of the SICU. The IFB was set aside for SDVOSB concerns and required that bidders be verified for ownership and control and . . . listed in the Vendor

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