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B-415798 1 (2018-03-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadunw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: IBM Corporation File: B-415798 Date: March 27, 2018 David W. Burgett, Esq., Michael D. McGill, Esq., Brendan M. Lill, Esq., Nicole D. Picard, Esq., and Adilene Rosales, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester. Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., and Elizabeth Buehler, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Accenture Federal Services, LLC, the intervenor. Christopher J. Reames, Esq., Angela Varner, Esq., and Michael Kiffney, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that the agency has failed to adequately pursue the investigation of an alleged violation of the procurement integrity provisions of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 2101-07, is premature where the agency has promptly initiated an investigation and that investigation is ongoing. DECISION IBM Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Accenture Federal Services, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), under task order request for proposals (TORP) No. HSTS02-17-R-OIA053, issued under DHS's Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) II indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, to acquire a full range of information technology (IT) services to support the TSA Secure Flight system. IBM, the incumbent contractor, alleges that TSA misevaluated the proposals and failed to undertake a reasonable investigation of an alleged violation of the Procurement Integrity Act. We deny the protest in part, and dismiss the procurement integrity allegations as premature.

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