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B-408685.23,B-408685.26 1 (2019-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzk0001 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 Decision Matter of: ADVENTureOne LLC; Apogee Engineering, LLC File: B-408685.23; B-408685.26 Date: September 20, 2019 Carrol H. Kinsey Jr., Esq., Redmon, Peyton & Braswell, LLP, for ADVENTureOne LLC, and Amber Scott, for Apogee Engineering, LLC, the protesters. Stephen T. O'Neal, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest arguing that the terms of a solicitation allowing offerors to earn points under the evaluation scoring criteria for approved purchasing and estimating systems are unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the disputed terms are not minimum requirements and where the agency reasonably explains why they are necessary to meet the agency's needs. 2. A protester's inability to access documents through the Electronic Protest Docketing System does not provide a basis to summarily sustain the protest, nor does it provide a basis to sanction the agency for failing to meet its obligation to file an agency report, where the protester did not advise our Office of its inability to access the documents prior to the due date for filing its comments. 3. Protest arguing that a solicitation improperly requires all members of a small business mentor-prot6g6 joint venture have certifications in order to earn points under the evaluation scoring criteria is denied where no statute or regulation prohibits the terms. DECISION ADVENTureOne LLC, of Dumfries, Virginia, a small business, and Apogee Engineering, LLC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, also a small business, challenge the terms of request for proposals (RFP) GSOOQ-1 3-DR-0002, which was issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Information Technology Service, for award of new contracts in the agency's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)-- small business pool of governmentwide multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-

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