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B-418818 Sep 17, 2020 1 (2020-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaolrw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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: Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation File: B-418818 Date: September 17, 2020 Thomas K. David, Esq., Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., and Katherine A. David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the technical/management approach evaluation factor is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation (MetTel), a small business of New York, New York, protests the issuance of a task order to Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., of Ashburn, Virginia under request for proposals (RFP) No. 821913732, issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for network data services in support of the Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) network. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its technical proposal and alternatively argues that the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 9, 2019, the agency issued the RFP to firms holding contracts under the General Services Administration's (GSA's) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5. Agency Report (AR), Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 4; AR, Tab 1, RFP at 2. The solicitation sought proposals to provide network data services in support

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