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B-402138 1 (2010-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbfk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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. Decision Matter of: Perot Systems Government Services, Inc. File: B-402138 Date: January 21, 2010 J. Scott Hommer III, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Justin J. Wortman, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., and Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq.,Venable LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., and Michael J. Slattery, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Electronic Data Systems, LLC, an intervenor. Kathleen K. Barksdale, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected quotation in Federal Supply Schedule acquisition conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 8.4 is denied where protester submitted prices that were unpublished rates and not approved as fair and reasonable by the General Services Administration, as required under FAR §§ 8.402(b) and 8.404(d). DECISION Perot Systems Government Services, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the issuance of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) task order to Electronic Data Systems, LLC (EDS), of Herndon, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. R3094042, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for information technology (IT) services to support VA's Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS). Perot asserts that the agency improperly excluded its quotation from award consideration. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 8.4, was open to vendors holding GSA FSS IT contracts under special item number (SIN) 132-51 (IT Professional Services). The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a task order to perform various IT support services for a base year, with four 1-year options. RFQ at 6-7. The successful vendor was to be determined based on initial quotations, and a best valueevaluation. Id. at 2. Vendors were to submit their

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