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B-417161,B-417161.2 1 (2019-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvqu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: Analytical Solutions by Kline, LLC File: B-417161; B-417161.2 Date: March 12, 2019 Eric S. Crusius, Esq., Mitchell A. Bashur, Esq., and Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP; and Cynthia Kline, Analytical Solutions by Kline, LLC, for the protester. Uri R. Ko, Esq., Ellen Rothschild, Esq., and Alice M. Somers, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where a solicitation provides for two different types of certifications through which an offeror may meet a quality certification requirement, protest challenging only one type of certification as unduly restrictive of competition is dismissed. 2. Protest challenging solicitation as unduly restrictive because it requires offerors to demonstrate experience through contract references under which they have performed for two or more years is denied where the protester's argument is based on a misinterpretation of the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging a solicitation term as unduly restrictive where the term limits offerors to submitting only three contract references to show past performance is denied where the agency has shown a reasonable basis for this limitation. 4. Protest that the agency engaged in improper bundling of contract requirements is dismissed as untimely where the agency's intent to combine contract requirements was apparent from the terms of the solicitation and the protester failed to challenge this aspect of the solicitation until after the closing time for receipt of proposals. DECISION Analytical Solutions by Kline, LLC (ASK), of Cleveland, Ohio, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 28321319R00000004, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for information technology (IT) support services. ASK asserts that

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