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B-422448 Jun 24, 2024 1 (2024-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqko0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA         O   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: Tygrove Technologies, RLLP
File:     B-422448
Date:     June 24, 2024
Richard P. Rector, Esq., Dawn E. Stern, Esq., David R. Lacker, Esq., and Andrew W.
Current, Esq., DLA Piper LLP (US), for the protester.
Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for
Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology, LLC, the intervenor.
Meaghan Q. LeClerc, Esq., General Services Administration, and Mark R. Hagedorn,
Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies.
April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging the agency's exclusion of the protester's proposal from phase 1 of a
competition in which the agency evaluated the past performance, experience, and team
structure factor is denied where the protester has not established that the agency's
evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation or
applicable procurement law and regulation.
DECISION
Tygrove Technologies, RLLP, an 8(a) small business joint venture' of McLean, Virginia,
protests the issuance of a task order to Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology,
1 Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), authorizes the Small
Business Administration (SBA) to enter into contracts with government agencies and to
arrange for performance of those contracts through subcontracts with socially and
economically disadvantaged small business concerns. Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) 19.800. This program is commonly referred to as the 8(a) program.
Here, Tygrove is an 8(a) small business mentor-prot6g6 joint venture (JV or MPJV)
composed of: Inserso Corporation, the large business mentor, who is also the
incumbent contractor; and Potomac Haven Inc., the 8(a) small business prot6g6 and
managing member. The proposal submitted by Tygrove also included a proposed
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