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B-410898 1 (2015-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office W ashington, DC 20548 D--------- DO C UMiE-N --T FO i--R P UB L-C -R-L-EASE ...... The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision... ;uirooo D e c is io n :L ---- ~~~~~~~~~~approved for publicir-ele-ase.---------------------------- Matter of: Akira Technologies, Inc. File: B-410898 Date: March 10, 2015 Christopher R. Shiplett, Esq., Randolph Law, PLLC, for the protester. Desiree A. DiCorcia, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest arguing that solicitation should have been set aside for small businesses is dismissed as untimely because the face of the solicitation clearly established that awards were being reserved, not set aside, for small businesses, and the protester did not raise this grounds for protest until after the closing time for receipt of proposals. 2. Protest that agency acted unreasonably when it did not reserve awards for HUBZone small business concerns is denied where the record shows that the agency's reserve strategy was reasonable and in accordance with applicable regulations. DECISION Akira Technologies, Inc., of Washington, D.C., a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA1 18-15-R-0558, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for information technology (IT) services. We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on November 19, 2014, anticipates the award of up to 20 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, each with a five-year base period and one, five-year option period. RFP at 19. The RFP seeks total IT services solutions, including the following major functional areas: program

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