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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: AtVentures, LLC
File: B-421775.6
Date: November 15, 2024
Brian A. Darst, Esq., Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C., for the protester.
Christopher Murphy, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of
the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging exclusion of the protester's proposal from consideration for award is
denied where the record shows that the protester's proposal failed to comply with a
solicitation requirement for mentor-prot6g6 joint ventures.
DECISION
AtVentures, LLC, a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture' of McLean, Virginia, protests the
General Services Administration's (GSA) exclusion of AtVentures'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+). AtVentures
1 AtVentures is a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture comprised of Maximus Federal
Consulting, LLC, as the mentor member, and Inoventures, LLC, as the prot6g6
member. Protest at 4. The Small Business Administration's (SBA) small business
mentor-prot6g6 program allows small or large business firms to serve as mentors to
small business prot6g6 firms to provide business development assistance to the
prot6g6 firms and to improve the prot6g6 firms' ability to successfully compete for
federal contracts. 13 C.F.R. § 125.9(a), (b); see 15 U.S.C. § 644(q)(1)(C). One benefit
of the mentor-prot6g6 program is that a prot6g6 and mentor may form a joint venture.
13 C.F.R. § 125.9(d). If SBA approves a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture, the mentor-
prot6g6 joint venture is permitted to compete as a small business for any government
prime contract, subcontract or sale, provided the prot6g6 qualifies as small for the
procurement[.] Id. § 125.9(d)(1).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaorey0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)