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B-405902.3 1 (2012-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadovo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: AINS, Inc. File: B-405902.3 Date: May 31, 2012 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Grant H. Willis, Esq., Jones Day, for Privasoft Corp., an intervenor. Barry C. Hansen, Esq., and Kristen E. Bucher, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably evaluated and selected awardee's quotation as the lowest price offer consistent with solicitation's stated evaluation criteria and record does not support protester's argument that the agency ordered services not on the awardee's Federal Supply Schedule contract. DECISION AINS, Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Privasoft Corp. of Ottowa, Canada, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DJJ-09-F-1791-0003, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic case management system services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was provided to AINS and Privasoft, each of whom holds a blanket purchase agreement with DOJ for an electronic FOIA case management system under their respective General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 70, information technology (IT), contracts.' Agency Report (AR) 1 As relevant here, the vendors hold FSS 70 contracts under special item numbers (SIN) 132-33, perpetual software license; SIN 132-34, software maintenance (continued...)

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