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B-419956.258 Jun 21, 2023 1 (2023-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaoovv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. The entire decision has now been approved for public release. Matter of: Optimo Information Technology, LLC File: B-419956.258 Date: June 21, 2023 Eden Brown Gaines, Esq., Brown Gaines, LLC, for the protester. Karyne C. Akhtar, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Lucas Della Ventura, Raymond Richards, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Comments filed via email to GAO's protest inbox during normal business hours, and subsequently submitted to GAO's electronic protest docketing system (EPDS) after normal business hours, are dismissed as untimely where protester failed to timely file the comments using EPDS, which was functioning and available during normal business hours. DECISION Optimo Information Technology, LLC. (Optimo), a small business of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), under request for proposals (RFP) No. 75N98121 R00001, which was issued for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity governmentwide acquisition contracts for information technology (IT) services, known as Chief Information Officer- Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4). The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of its proposal under phase one of the competition unreasonably failed to consider price or technical merit. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND NIH issued the solicitation on May 25, 2021, seeking proposals to provide IT solutions and services in the areas of health, biomedical, scientific, administrative, operational,

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