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B-410898.2 1 (2015-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadray0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 .DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of: Advanced Communication Cabling, Inc. File: B-410898.2 Date: March 25, 2015 Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Petefish, Immel, Heeb & Hird, LLP, for the protester. Tiffany Alford, Esq., Desiree A. DiCorcia, Esq., Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., and Lea E. Duerinck, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation's prohibition on the use of consultants to assist with proposal preparation is unduly restrictive is denied where the provision is reasonably related to the agency's desire to reduce performance risk by assessing the understanding and capabilities of the actual offeror and its proposed team, as opposed to those of a consultant, which has not been proposed to perform the contract. 2. Protest that solicitation is ambiguous is denied where protester's reading of the solicitation is not reasonable. DECISION Advanced Communication Cabling, Inc. (ACCI), of Spring Arbor, Michigan, a small business, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA1 18-15-R-0558, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for information technology (IT) services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on November 19, 2014, anticipates the award of up to 20 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, each with a 5-year base

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