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B-411739 1 (2015-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrng0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General .u m m 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. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Software Engineering Services Corporation File: B-411739 Date: October 8, 2015 John M. Heida, Esq., Heida Law Firm, LLC, for the protester. Isaias Alba, IV, Esq., Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Ambika J. Biggs, Esq., and Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for OBXtek, Inc., the intervenor. William M. Lackermann Jr., Esq., and Capt. Tamberneshia Willis, Department of the Air Force; Michael J. Noble, Esq., General Services Administration; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Alison M. Mueller, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the ordering contracting officer for a task order issued under a multiple- award, government-wide acquisition contract failed to verify the awardee's small business status is denied, where the Small Business Administration, in ruling on a size status protest, found that the solicitation did not require recertification of size status at the order level, and the record shows that the awardee had small business status on the date of proposal submission. DECISION Software Engineering Services Corporation (SES), of Bellevue, Nebraska, protests the Department of the Air Force's issuance of a task order to OBXtek, Inc., of Tysons Corner, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA9101-15-F-0001, for network-centric information technology (IT), networking and security, voice, video and data communications, information and applications management, system solutions, and related services.' SES primarily argues that the agency failed to verify OBXtek's small business size status. 1 The estimated value of the task order is approximately $46.5 million. Accordingly, this procurement is within our jurisdiction to hear protests related to the issuance of (continued...)

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