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B-410947 1 (2015-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrba0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Latvian Connection, LLC File: B-410947 Date: March 31, 2015 Keven L. Barnes, for the protester. Dennis Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where FedBid, acting as the agent for the contracting agency, excluded the protester, a small business, from the competition based on a perceived lack of business integrity, in effect making a negative responsibility determination, without referring the matter to the Small Business Administration under the Certificate of Competency procedures. DECISION Latvian Connection, LLC, of Kuwait City, Kuwait, challenges its exclusion from the competition under solicitation No. FY15RR0024 (also identified as FedBid Buy No. 693101), issued by the Department of State (DOS) for first aid kits and related medical supplies. Latvian Connection argues that it has been improperly excluded from competing for this procurement, which is being conducted on behalf of the agency by FedBid, Inc. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on December 19, 2014, and set aside for small businesses, sought a contractor to provide first aid kits and related medical supplies to be used in a training exercise, to be conducted from May 10 to May 28, 2015, with the Jordanian Police Force at the Jordanian International Police Training Center in Jordan. The procurement was conducted through FedBid, a commercial online procurement services provider that operates a website at www.FedBid.com which,

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