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B-418799 Sep 10, 2020 1 (2020-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaolnt0001 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 L been approved for public release. Matter of: CRAssociates, Inc. File: B-418799 Date: September 10, 2020 Matthew R. Keller, Esq., and Kristen L. Loesch, Esq., Praemia Law, PLLC, for the protester. Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision to set aside a procurement for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research that there was a reasonable expectation of receiving proposals from at least two service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses capable of performing the required services at a fair and reasonable price. DECISION CRAssociates, Inc. (CRA), a large business located in Newington, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C25718R0842, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a set-aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) to obtain medical care services for veterans at a community- based outpatient clinic (CBOC) in San Antonio, Texas. CRA, the current incumbent contractor, asserts that the VA's decision to set aside the procurement for SDVOSBs was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA issued the RFP on January 15, 2020, as an SDVOSB set-aside, seeking proposals for the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a 1-year base period and four 1-year options to provide medical care services for veterans at a CBOC in San Antonio, Texas. RFP at 1, 166. The estimated patient load at the clinic for the base year is 3,000 patients per month, with patient enrollment estimated to

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