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B-299452 1 (2007-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . 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. Decision Matter of: Rothe Computer Solutions, LLC d/b/a Rohmann Joint Venture File: B-299452 Date: May 9, 2007 David F. Barton, Esq., The Gardner Law Firm, for the protester. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Small Business Administration properly accepted requirement for visual information services for the Air Force Academy into the 8(a) business development program for award on a competitive basis without determining whether acceptance of the requirement into the 8(a) program would have an adverse impact on an existing small business after reasonably determining that the services qualified as a new requirement. DECISION Rothe Computer Solutions, LLC d/b/a Rohmann Joint Venture (RJV) protests the decision by the Department of the Air Force and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to place a requirement for visual information services for the Air Force Academy under the SBA's section 8(a) business development program for award on a competitive basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND RJV has been performing a contract for various information management and communications services, including the visual information services at issue in this protest, for the Air Force Academy since 2002. Because this contract is due to expire in July 2007, the Air Force has initiated the process of reprocuring the services. In June 2006, the Air Force shifted responsibility for the visual information services from the Communications Squadron, which had awarded the contract to RJV, to the Air Force Public Affairs Office; as a consequence of this reorganization, the Air

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