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B-412340,B-412340.2,B-412340.3 1 (2016-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrww0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. Matter of: Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. File: B-412340; B-412340.2; B-412340.3 Date: January 20, 2016 James J. McCullough, Esq., Aaron T. Tucker, Esq., Anayansi Rodriguez, Esq., and Samuel W. Jack, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Rand L. Allen, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Gary S. Ward, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, LLC, the intervenor. Jose Otero, Esq., and Sara Falk, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably considered whether protester's proposal addressed cloud-related requirements under certain sub-domain requirements that did not specifically mention the cloud is denied where the record shows that the purpose of the procurement was to transition to a majority cloud-based facility, and the solicitation specifically instructed offerors to address how they would fulfill each of the sub-domain requirements while meeting the solicitation's Statement of Objectives, which emphasized the importance of cloud-based computing. 2. Protest that awardee improperly shifted costs into unevaluated contract line item numbers (CLIN) for transition in order to artificially lower its evaluated price is denied where the protester failed to identify with specificity any particular operational costs that were improperly classified, and in any case, even if the unevaluated CLINS were included in the awardee's price, it would still be lower than the protester's price. 3. Protest that agency unreasonably failed to consider the impending corporate restructuring of the awardee's parent is denied where there is no indication that the awardee planned to rely on the resources of its corporate parent, and no indication that the restructuring would have any effect on the awardee's performance.

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