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B-422659.5,B-422659.6 Jan 14, 2025 1 (2025-01-14)

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  Gu  AOU.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
                                          a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
Decision
                                          approved for public release.


Matter of:  22nd  Century Technologies, Inc.

File:     B-422659.5;   B-422659.6

Date:       January 14, 2025

W. Brad English, Esq., Maynard Nexsen, PC, for the protester.
James  Y. Boland, Esq., Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., and Kelly M. Boppe, Esq., Venable
LLP, for Lamb Informatics Limited, the intervenor.
Laurina Spolidoro, Esq., Julie A. Neville, Esq., Sheila Rajabiun, Esq., and Omyra M.
Ramsingh,  Esq., Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for the agency.
Michael P. Price, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging agency's best-value determination and subsequent source selection
decision is denied where the record demonstrates the agency's conclusions were
reasonable and adequately documented.
DECISION

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a call
order to Lamb Informatics Limited, of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations
(RFQ) No. USCA24Q0007, issued   by the Administrative Office of the United States
Courts (AOUSC)  for centralized management and operational support services for the
agency's enterprise information technology infrastructure. The protester argues that the
agency's best-value determination and resultant source selection decision were
unreasonable.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On October 31, 2023, AOUSC  issued the RFQ to holders of the judiciary information
technology services blanket purchase agreement (BPA). Contracting Officer's
Statement (COS) at 1. The solicitation contemplated the issuance of a fixed-price call
order pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to
fulfill the agency's mission to provide centralized management and operational support

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