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B-406184,B-406184.2,B-406184.5 1 (2012-03-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadorc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 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. D e c i s i o n ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Matter of: Digicon Corporation; Intelligent Decisions, Inc. File: B-406184; B-406184.2; B-406184.5 Date: March 5, 2012 Craig S. King, Esq., Richard J. Webber, Esq., and Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for Digicon Corporation, and David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Intelligent Decisions, Inc., the protesters. Jonathan A. Baker, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The agency reasonably excluded the protesters' proposals from the competitive range where the proposals failed to demonstrate, within the solicitation's identified page limitations, that the protesters satisfied the solicitation's technical understanding and capability requirements, and where the unacceptable offers were not among the most highly rated proposals. DECISION Digicon Corporation, of Rockville, Maryland, and Intelligent Decisions, Inc., of Ashburn, Virginia, protest the exclusion of their proposals from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2010001, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) for information technology (IT) solutions and services. Digicon and Intelligent Decisions contend that NIH's evaluation of their proposals as well as the subsequent determination to exclude the proposals from the competitive range were improper. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND Pursuant to Section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, 40 U.S.C. § 11302(e) (2006), the Office of Management and Budget has designated NIH as an executive

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