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B-413947 1 (2016-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsxf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Platinum Business Services, LLC File: B-413947 Date: December 23, 2016 Jody J. Venkatesan for Platinum Business Services LLC. John E. Cornell, Esq., and Alissa Schrider, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the agency did not give adequate consideration to a potential organizational conflict of interest is denied where the protester fails to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. 2. Protest that the ordering contracting officer for a task order issued under a Federal Supply Schedule contract failed to verify the awardee's small business status is dismissed 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. DECISION Platinum Business Services, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) located in Laurel, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Redhorse Corporation of San Diego, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. QTA0016ACB3007, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for acquisition management and information technology (IT) support services. Platinum contends that GSA did not investigate whether Redhorse had a potentially disqualifying organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and that the agency failed to verify the awardee's small business size status. The protester also challenges the evaluation of Platinum's technical quotation. We deny the protest in part and dismiss the protest in part.

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