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B-421364 Apr 13, 2023 1 (2023-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaooro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Warrior Service Company File: B-421364 Date: April 13, 2023 Frank V. Reilly, Esq., Frank V. Reilly Attorney at Law, for the protester. Maura C. Brown, Esq., and Jean Athey, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency decision's to procure wheeled mobility repair services in a nationwide contract as impermissible bundling under the Small Business Act is denied where the record shows that the requirement is a new service, and where the protester fails to demonstrate that the solicitation bundles separate smaller contracts previously performed by small businesses. DECISION Warrior Service Company, a small business of Hialeah, Florida, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C79123R0001, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for wheeled mobility repair services. The protester asserts that the solicitation impermissibly bundles several requirements that could be performed by small businesses, without proper justification and authorization. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The VA is the largest provider of wheeled mobility devices (manual wheelchairs, scooters, and custom power wheelchairs) in the world. Agency Report (AR), Tab 15, Decl. of VA Clinical Nurse Program Manager at 1. The VA currently provides repairs to wheeled mobility devices in multiple ways, using multiple gatekeepers to initiate the triage, approval and procurement of repairs. The majority of repairs are procured via purchase card transactions, due to the absence of specific wheelchair repair contracts. AR, Tab 14, Decl. of VA Physical Therapist at 2. Some repairs are purchased under

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