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B-408128.23 1 (2014-04-03)

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          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
Acc;       tabt Infegilty ReiIbiIkty                                     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.
           D  e c is io n                             ........................................................................................................................


           Matter of:   Epoch Concepts, LLC

           File:        B-408128.23

           Date:        April 3, 2014

           Mark R. Thomas, Esq., Reid Law PC, for the protester.
           Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Brian A. Tuftee, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
           agency.
           Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest that agency applied undisclosed evaluation criteria, considering the offeror's
           business processes, is denied where record shows that the challenged
           consideration was consistent with the business architecture referenced in the
           solicitation evaluation criteria.
           DECISION

           Epoch Concepts, LLC, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, protests the exclusion of its
           proposal under Phase I of a two-step competition under request for proposals (RFP)
           No. W52P1 J-1 1 -R-01 71, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel
           Command, for the IT Enterprise Solutions-3rd Generation Hardware (ITES-3H)
           acquisition, for information technology (IT) equipment, services, software, and
           warranty variations.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The purpose of the ITES-3H acquisition is to support the Army enterprise
           infrastructure and infostructure goals with a full range of innovative IT equipment
           and solutions at a reasonable price. The solicitation covers a wide variety of
           IT-related hardware for client, server, storage, and network environments, along
           with warranty and support services. The RFP contemplates award, on a best
           value basis, of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for a
           3-year base period with two 1-year options. The agency plans to make

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