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B-411303.2 1 (2015-09-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrlj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jGA Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability 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: N3 Government Solutions, LLC File: B-411303.2 Date: September 9, 2015 Christopher R. Shiplett, Esq., Danielle N. Hart, Esq., and Nishat Azam, Esq., Randolph Law, PLLC, for the protester. Eric S. Lipsetts, Esq., Eric Lipsetts, P.A., for Veteran Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Steven P. Cullen, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency; John W. Klein, Esq. and Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the contracting officer improperly denied a request by the Small Business Administration for additional time to consider issuing a certificate of competency is denied where the protester has not shown that the contracting officer's action was affected by fraud or bad faith. DECISION N3 Government Solutions, LLC (N3GS), of Fayetteville, North Carolina, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Veteran Solutions, Inc. (VSI), of Glen Burnie, Maryland, by the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. HDTRA1-14-R-0018 for administrative support services at various DTRA locations. N3GS argues that DTRA unreasonably failed to allow the Small Business Administration (SBA) additional time to consider N3GS under the SBA's certificate of competency process. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DTRA issued the RFP on October 20, 2014, seeking proposals from service- disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) to provide administrative support services at DTRA locations in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; Albuquerque, New Mexico; West Point, New York; Travis Air Force

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