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B-401670 1 (2009-10-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A G A O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been DecisioI approved for public release. Matter of: Trusted Base, LLC File: B-401670 Date: October 27, 2009 Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Sean M. Connolly, Esq., Greenberg Traurig LLP, for the protester. Thomas K. David, Esq., and Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine LLP, for AGTech, LLC., the intervenor. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the issuance of a task order to a higher technically rated, higher- priced offeror is denied where the task order request provided that technical merit was more important than price and the evaluation record provides a reasonable basis for the selection decision. DECISION Trusted Base, LLC of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to AGTech, LLC of Rockville, Maryland, by the Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Information Resource Management, for consolidated technical operations and maintenance (O&M) support services in DOS's Enterprise Server Operations Center (ESOC). The task order was issued pursuant to a multiple award, indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract known as the Hybrid Information Technology Services for State (HITSS) contract.' Trusted Base alleges numerous evaluation errors. We deny the protest. 'In April 2007, HITSS contracts were awarded to 20 offerors, including Trusted Base and AGTech, under which the agency would award time-and-materials, labor-hour, or fixed-price task orders. CO's Statement at 7.

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