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B-411206,B-411206.2 1 (2015-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrbu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Agency Management Concepts, Inc. File: B-411206; B-411206.2 Date: April 21, 2015 Robert E. Korroch, Esq., William A. Wozniak, Esq., and Jordan E. Stanaway, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura M. Foster, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging agency's prior award of contracts under Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program precludes award of sole-source 8(a) contract for follow-on requirement to tribally-owned concern is dismissed where SBA's regulations permit such award, so long as agency is not removing procurement from an ongoing competition among 8(a) program participants in order to make award to tribally-owned concern--a circumstance not present here. DECISION Agency Management Concepts, Inc. (AMC), of Oakton, Virginia, protests the Department of State's (DOS) decision to award a sole-source contract for lock and lock services to a tribally-owned concern under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) section 8(a) program. AMC asserts award of the contract on a sole-source basis is improper and DOS must instead conduct the procurement as a competition among eligible 8(a) program participants. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND DOS has had a longstanding requirement for lock and lock services. See Protest at 3. Since 2003, DOS generally has procured this requirement through the award