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B-405296,B-405296.2,B-405296.3 1 (2011-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadogz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .L G A 0 Comptroller General f.Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Technosource Information Systems, LLC; TrueTandem, LLC File: B-405296; B-405296.2; B-405296.3 Date: October 17, 2011 William A. Shook, Esq., Shook Doran LLP, for the protesters. Timothy Sullivan, Esq., and Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for Onix Networking Corporation; E. Charles Rowan, Esq., for Unisys Corporation, the intervenors. John Cornell, Esq., General Services Administration, Information Technology Service, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency requirement that any non-U.S.-based cloud computing data centers be located in Trade Agreements Act Designated Countries is sustained where the agency failed to establish a connection to any legitimate government need. 2. Protest of agency requirement for a government community cloud limited to United States federal, state, local, or tribal government entities, is denied where the record supports a potentially meaningful security benefit associated with the requirement. 3. Allegation that solicitation's internet routing requirements are ambiguous is sustained where the relevant terms are only apparent by reference to explanations and documents which were not incorporated in, or referenced by, the solicitation. DECISION Technosource Information Systems, LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland, and TrueTandem, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, protest the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. QTA011GNB0010, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Information Technology Service, for cloud computing services. We sustain the protest in part and deny it in part.

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