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B-299542.2 1 (2007-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAS Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Government Telecommunications, Inc. File: B-299542.2 Date: June 21, 2007 John C. Person, Esq., Person & Craver LLP, for the protester. Seth Binstock, Esq., Andrew J. Seff, Esq., and Ellen Rothschild, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging contracting agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and exclusion of proposal from competitive range is denied where agency's evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION Government Telecommunications, Inc. (GTI) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-06-1031, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for the agency's telephone systems replacement project (TSRP). GTI contends that the agency's evaluation of its proposal as well as the subsequent determination to exclude its proposal from the competitive range were improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND SSA is a federal government agency staffed by over 65,000 employees. In addition to the agency's headquarters, SSA has a field organization consisting of 10 regional offices, 6 program service centers, and more than 1,500 field offices to provide services at the local level. The TSRP represents SSA's replacement of its current telephone systems with an enterprise voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone solution, to support the agency's current and future requirements and the transition to internet protocol (IP) telephone systems. In general terms, the statement of work here required the contractor to provide all hardware, software, and services

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