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B-419601 Apr 12, 2021 1 (2021-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaoljy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: Unami, LLC File: B-419601 Date: April 12, 2021 Nicole Pottroff, Esq., Quinten Fisher, Esq., Christopher Coleman, Esq., and Shane McCall, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Philip Aubart, Harry M. Parent, Esq., Stephen Hernandez, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that procurement under Small Business Administration section 8(a) program should have been designated as a new, and not a follow-on, requirement is dismissed where agency followed applicable regulations in issuing an offering letter to the Small Business Administration for a follow-on requirement. DECISION Unami, LLC, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, protests the Department of the Army's decision not to recommend it for the award of a sole-source contract for installation of cabling services under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program. Unami asserts that the Army unreasonably characterized the requirement as a follow-on requirement for which Unami is not eligible for award.1 We dismiss the protest. 1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act authorizes SBA to contract with other agencies and to arrange for performance of those contracts through subcontracts awarded to socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses. 15 U.S.C. § 637(a). The 8(a) program has both competitive and noncompetitive (sole-source) components. See 13 C.F.R. § 124.501(b); 13 C.F.R. § 124.506(a).

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