JVYS

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“JVYS […] TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING EFFORT IN SUPPORT OF THE PIF.”

U.S. Government Accountability Office · Supports Organization · description, Organization · legal name

“To understand TFab’s primary allegation--that RDS is improperly relying on the experience of the incumbent contractor--requires additional background on the relationship between RDS and the incumbent JVYS; the incumbent and the awardee here are linked by a Cooperative Transition Agreement. AR at 16. In this regard, the agency explains that the incumbent contractor on the PIF contract is an unpopulated joint venture, which no longer qualifies as an 8(a) concern. The JVYS joint venture is formed by Yulista Management Services (YMS) and Science and Engineering Services (SES). AR at 14. RDS, the awardee here, is an 8(a) business also operating as an unpopulated joint venture; the RDS joint venture is comprised of Yulista Aviation, Incorporated (YAI), an Alaskan Native Corporation (ANC) 8(a) business, which is serving as the majority partner to the joint venture, and Science and Engineering Services (SES), a small business, which is serving as the minority partner to the joint venture.[\[4\]](https://www.gao.gov/products/b-406698#_ftn4) […] As unpopulated joint ventures, neither JVYS nor RDS possess personnel, resources, or facilities. Instead, the personnel, resources, and facilities of both companies are assets of the individual partners forming the joint venture. We note that SES served as a partner in the incumbent joint venture, and in the awardee’s joint venture. Similarly, in the case of the ANC-owned YMS and YAI, some personnel, resources, and/or facilities may be owned by the tribe or an administrative holding company of the tribal corporation. In addition, the Calista Corporation, the parent corporation to YMS and YAI, and one of 13 regional corporations established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, performs administrative services for all its subsidiaries, to include management, accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, legal, operations, taxes, licenses and business compliance.[\[5\]](https://www.gao.gov/products/b-406698#_ftn5) AR at 14.”