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B-421775.5 Nov 15, 2024 1 (2024-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaores0001 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. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC File: B-421775.5 Date: November 15, 2024 Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester. Christopher Murphy, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the exclusion of the protester's proposal from consideration for award under a solicitation that was set aside for small businesses is denied where the protester had recertified as other than small in accordance with federal regulations. DECISION Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC, a small business of Washington, District of Columbia, protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) exclusion of Jefferson's proposal from consideration for award under request for proposals (RFP) No. 47QRCA23R0001. GSA issued the RFP for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity governmentwide acquisition contracts for a variety of services-based solutions, known as One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+). Jefferson contends that the agency's decision to remove its proposal from consideration for award is improper because GSA lacks the authority to decide that Jefferson is not a small business. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on June 15, 2023. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFP at 1. The OASIS+ acquisition program is intended to provide Government agencies with total integrated solutions for a multitude of services-based requirements on a global basis. Id. at 21. The family of OASIS+ services contracts includes six distinct indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicles for different

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