RAS Enterprise’s Sole-Source Oxygen Contracts From VA Upheld

June 29, 2021, 3:30 PM UTC

RCG of North Carolina LLC failed to show the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly awarded RAS Enterprise LLC three short-term sole-source contracts worth around $1 million to provide medical grade bulk liquid oxygen and associated services, the GAO said in a decision released Tuesday.

RCG argued that the Veterans Benefits Act and its implementing regulation required the VA to conduct a competition among service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

But the Veterans First Contracting Program allows the VA to award contracts to SDVOSBs without full and open competition when the contract value doesn’t exceed $5 million, a justification is prepared and posted, ...

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