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B-419839 Jun 25, 2021 1 (2021-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaomgw0001 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. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Mountainside Medical Equipment, Inc. File: B-419839 Date: June 25, 2021 Dana B. Pashkoff, Esq., Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., and Lauren N. Olmsted, Esq., Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, for the protester. Kathleen Ellis, Esq., and Steven Devine, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Mercedes Wilson-Barthes and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's decision to make award to a company that the protester alleges is not a verified a service-disabled veteran-owned small business is dismissed where the protester is ineligible for award and therefore lacks the requisite interest to maintain the protest. DECISION Mountainside Medical Equipment, Inc., of Marcy, New York, protests the award of a contract to Magellan Solutions USA Inc., of Brisbane, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C242-20-Q-0920, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the provision of telephone switchboard operators at the agency's James J. Peters Medical Center in Bronx, New York. The protester, a service-disabled veteran- owned small business (SDVOSB), argues that the agency has improperly made the award to a company that is not a verified SDVOSB, as required by the solicitation, and that the agency could not meet the rule of two requirement for VA small-business set asides.1 We dismiss the protest on the basis that the protester is not an interested party and the protest does not establish a valid basis for challenging the agency's action. 1 The protester filed an agency-level protest on March 31, 2021, which the agency dismissed for failure to provide a factual basis for protest and as untimely. Req. for Dismissal, exh. 5, Agency Protest Dismissal, at 3-4.

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