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B-404845 1 (2011-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbtk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,G A O Comptroller General LXn , 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: Qwest Government Services, Inc. File: B-404845 Date: March 25, 2011 Gregory A. Smith, Esq., David E. Fletcher, Esq., Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., and Charles L. Capito, Esq., Cooley LLP, for the protester. Beth Sturgess, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Costs for equipment and services furnished by the government in connection with performance of task order are not considered when determining whether value of the order exceeds the $10 million threshold to invoke task order protest jurisdiction. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the terms of an unnumbered request for quotations issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for data center hosting services for USCIS's Technology Engineering and Consolidation Center (TECC). The hosting services in question consist of providing a facility, power, network connections, and building security services for USCIS servers and other equipment. An order for the services will be issued to one of the three awardees under a General Services Administration indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for telecommunications services (the Networx Universal contract).' The protester objects to language in the RFQ providing for the addition of approximately $14 million to the evaluated prices of contractors other than the incumbent service provider, Verizon, to take into account costs that the agency will incur if the services are provided in a new location. Qwest argues that this price evaluation approach is fundamentally unfair and is a de facto sole-source award to the incumbent. We dismiss the protest because we do not have jurisdiction to consider it. 'The three contract holders are the protester, Verizon Business Systems, and AT&T.

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