WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed a protest filed by SteerBridge Strategies, LLC, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) from Vienna, Virginia, concerning a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) solicitation for modern claims processing support services. The GAO ruled that SteerBridge's objections to the solicitation's terms and the adequacy of market research were filed too late. The VA initially issued a request for quotations (R more ST

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed a protest filed by Major Contracting Services Inc., a small business based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, challenging the U.S. Army's award of a contract to K&H Environmental Services, a small business located in East Dublin, Georgia. The contract, for portable chemical latrines (PCL) and hand washing stations (HWS) at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia, was awarded under a lowest-price, technically ac more ST

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed a protest filed by Aquila Fitness Consulting Systems Ltd., a Miami, Florida-based small business, challenging the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) decision to set aside a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procurement for women-owned small businesses (WOSB). The procurement, for physical readiness and wellness program services at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia, was protested on the gro more ST

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest from Global Military Products Inc. (GMP), a Tampa, Florida-based small business, challenging the U.S. Army's $435 million sole-source contract award to Repkon USA Defense LLC, also of Tampa, for the construction of a domestic trinitrotoluene (TNT) production facility in Graham, Kentucky. GMP argued that the Army improperly used extraordinary acquisition authority, specifically a class deviation related to su more ST

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a decision on a protest filed by CS 321 East 2nd Investors LLC, a small business based in New York, regarding a lease solicitation by the General Services Administration (GSA) for office space in Los Angeles, California. The GAO denied parts of the protest and dismissed others. The protest centered on Request for Lease Proposals (RLP) No. 2CA1644, which sought office space for the Federal Public Defender (FPD) in Los  more ST

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sustained a protest filed by TISTA Science and Technology Corp. of Rockville, Maryland, challenging the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) award of a software development services task order to Tantus Technologies Inc. of Arlington, Virginia. The dispute centered on NIH solicitation No. RFQ1700691, which sought quotations for software development services to support the National Institute on Aging (NIA). TISTA, the incumb more ST

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest filed by Team CSI Joint Venture LLC, a small business from San Antonio, Texas, challenging the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) award of an enterprise IT support services task order to AccelGov LLC, a mentor-protege joint venture based in Bethesda, Maryland. The protest centered on RFP No. 642369727, which sought IT support services for the National Defense University (NDU). Team CSI contested var more ST