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B-416394 1 (2018-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduzh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisionbeen approved for public release. Matter of: Distributed Solutions, Inc. File: B-416394 Date: August 13, 2018 Lawrence M. Prosen, Esq., Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., and Nicholas J. Nieto, Esq., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, for the protester. Libbi Finelsen, Esq., and Agu Onuma, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's decision to reject proposal as nonresponsive is denied where proposal failed to comply with material solicitation requirements in multiple respects. DECISION Distributed Solutions, Inc., (DSI) of Reston, Virginia, protests the rejection of its proposal, submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. N00039-17-R-0002, which was issued by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), for an electronic procurement system. DSI challenges the agency's assessment that the firm's proposal was nonresponsive based on the failure to comply with several aspects of the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND SPAWAR issued the RFP on July 13, 2017, seeking a contractor to develop a commercial electronic procurement system (ePS) for the Navy. The RFP, issued pursuant to the negotiated procurement procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, contemplated the award of a hybrid contract with both fixed-price and cost-reimbursable line items, for a 10-year period of performance, which included a 1.5-year base period and nine option periods. Agency Report (AR), exh. 1, RFP

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