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G A O0 Comptroller General
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United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Tiger Enterprises, Inc.
File: B-294973
Date: January 4, 2005
Lillian K. Mauldin for the protester.
J.R. Cohn, Esq., and Julius Rothlein, Esq., U.S. Marine Corps, and Kenneth Dodds,
Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies.
John L. Formica, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly accepted a U.S. Marine
Corps requirement for the lease of washers/dryers into the section 8(a) program is
denied where the record supports the SBA's determination that the requirement is
new, and as such an adverse impact determination was not required.
DECISION
Tiger Enterprises, Inc. protests the decision of the U.S. Marine Corps and Small
Business Administration (SBA) to contract with Class Act under the section 8(a)
set-aside program for the lease and maintenance of washers and dryers for certain
barracks at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina'
We deny the protest.
Camp Lejeune is a Marine Corps training base where marines living in barracks do
not have access to commercial laundry facilities. The Marine Corps thus leases
washers and dryers for use by marines. The agency explains that [a] substantial
program of construction and renovation of barracks is ongoing at Camp Lejeune,
1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (2000), authorizes SBA to
contract with government agencies and arrange for the performance of those
contracts by awarding subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged
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