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B-416528.2 1 (2019-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvlb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision I a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Wyle Laboratories, Inc. File: B-416528.2 Date: January 11, 2019 Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC; and Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Keith R. Szeliga, Esq., and Adam A. Bartolanzo, Esq., and Shaunna E. Bailey, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, for Deloitte Consulting LLP, the intervenor. Carl J. Vernetti, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's rejection of a quotation for the issuance of a task order is denied where the agency reasonably concluded it would not be in privity of contract with the entity that would be performing the work. DECISION Wyle Laboratories, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, challenges the rejection of its quotation and the issuance of a task order to Deloitte Consulting LLP, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 01 C1 8Q0106, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for professional, technical, and operational support services, in support of DHS's Office of Facilities and Asset Management. Wyle contends that the agency improperly failed to conduct a comparative assessment of the vendors' quotations prior to selecting Deloitte to receive the order. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The CBP issued the RFQ on June 4, 2018. The competition was limited to firms holding one of the General Services Administration's (GSA) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) unrestricted pool 1, multiple-award indefinite-delivery,

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