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B-419036,B-419036.2 1 (2020-11-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeccj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: UpSlope Advisors, Inc. File: B-419036; B-419036.2 Date: November 25, 2020 James Y. Boland, Esq., Caleb E. McCallum, Esq., and Chelsea B. Knudson, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Weigman-Lenz, Major Laura Bauza, Captain Seiji Ohashi, Kenneth M. Roth, Esq., and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force; and Mark Hagedorn, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the agency failed to comply with the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) regulations when it announced its intention to award a sole- source contract to a tribally owned concern is sustained where the record reflects that the contract is for the same requirement as one previously competed within the SBA's section 8(a) program. DECISION UpSlope Advisors, Inc. (UpSlope), a small business of Denver, Colorado, protests the decision of the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to award a sole-source contract for enterprise information technology (IT) services to Eagle TG, LLC (Eagle), a tribally-owned concern of New Braunfels, Texas, under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program. UpSlope asserts that the award of the contract on a sole-source basis is improper because it violates the SBA's regulations. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND This protest is the latest challenge to a series of actions taken by USTRANSCOM related to USTRANSCOM's requirement to provide enterprise IT services support for the military surface deployment and distribution command (SDDC), a requirement the

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