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B-416104.2 1 (2018-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Alpine Companies, Inc. File: B-416104.2 Date: August 23, 2018 April Cooper, for the protester. Dean A. Roy, Esq., Julie Cannatti, Esq., and William Edwards, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development; Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to set aside a procurement for small businesses is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research that it did not have a reasonable expectation of receiving proposals from two or more small businesses capable of performing all of the required services at a fair market price. DECISION Alpine Companies, Inc., an 8(a) woman-owned small business of Alpine, Utah, protests the terms of solicitation No. 86544B-1 8R-00001, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for management and marketing (M&M) services, asset manager services, for HUD's real estate owned properties. Alpine Companies argues that the solicitation should have been set aside for small businesses.' 1 Because Alpine Companies proceeded with its protest pro se no protective order was issued in this protest. A full version of the agency report was provided to our Office, while a redacted version of the report was furnished to the protester. We have reviewed the entire unredacted record in camera. As much of the information reviewed by our Office is source selection sensitive and/or proprietary in nature, our discussion of some aspects of the agency's market survey and resulting findings is necessarily general in nature.