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B-401169,B-401169.2 1 (2009-06-29)

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         G    A    O                                                    Comptroller General
       Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office      DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548
                                                     The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
                                                     GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
                                                     approved for public release.
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         Matter  of:  Carahsoft Technology  Corporation

         File:        B-401169; B-401169.2

         Date:        June 29, 2009

         Richard J. Conway, Esq., and Michael J. Slattery, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the
         protester.
         Robert Truitt for MicroLink, LLC, the intervenor.
         Eric K. Croft, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency.
         Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
         Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest challenging an order under a Federal Supply Schedule contract for faceted
         search capability software pursuant to a competition conducted under Federal
         Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 is sustained where the agency unreasonably
         issued an order on the basis of a quotation that failed to meet one of the minimum
         technical specifications of the solicitation.
         DECISION

         Carahsoft Technology  Corporation of Reston, Virginia protests an order to
         MicroLink, LLC of Vienna, Virginia by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
         (NGA)  under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 326545 for faceted search capability
         software.' Carahsoft argues that MicroLink's quotation failed to meet the RFQ's



         'Faceted search capability software enables a user to navigate searches for
         information along multiple paths corresponding to different orderings of facets
         (metadata). Agency  Report (AR), Tab 4, NGA Market Research, at 2. A facet
         (metadata) is a searchable attribute of data. For example, if someone took a picture
         of a house with a camera, the facets (metadata) associated with that picture could
         be: the date, time, coordinates, aspect ratio, type of camera, etc. Faceted search
         capability software would allow a user to search for the picture of the house using
         any of the facets listed above. AR at 2-3.

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