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B-418376.2 1 (2020-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebfn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: CDS Services, Inc. File: B-418376.2 Date: June 4, 2020 Alan Grayson, Esq., Law Office of Alan Grayson, for the protester. Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly withdrew a service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside determination is denied, where the agency withdrew the determination because the protester, the only competitor, submitted a price that the agency concluded was not fair and reasonable based on a government estimate that was reasonably supported by the record, and where there is no evidence of bad faith by the agency. DECISION CDS Services, Inc., of Murrieta, California, a small business, protests the rejection of its quotation and the withdrawal of the agency's decision to set aside the procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C25620Q0069, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The agency issued the RFQ for pest control services for four VA outpatient clinics in Mississippi and Florida. CDS argues that the VA unreasonably rejected its quotation on the basis that its price was not fair and reasonable, and failed to award it a contract as provided by applicable regulations. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued November 27, 2019, sought quotations from SDVOSBs to provide commercial pest control services for a base year and four option years. The VA received one quotation, from CDS, doing business as Legion Pest Management. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The VA evaluated CDS's quotation as

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