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B-405425.2,B-405425.3 1 (2011-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoxv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General lAccoauntability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of. Qwest Government Services, Inc. File: B-405425.2; B-405425.3 Date: December 9, 2011 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., and Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., Cooley LLP, for the protester. John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for Verizon Business Systems, the intervenor. Pamela Reiner Waldron, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's assessment of risk in the protester's price proposal was reasonable where the protester based its price on assumptions that were not stated in the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest that the awardee failed to include required information in a specific part of its proposal is denied, where the record shows that the solicitation was patently ambiguous as to where the information could be provided and the awardee included the information in a different part of its proposal. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, challenges the issuance of a a task order to Verizon Business Systems, of Ashburn, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. D10PS18983, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for telecommunications services. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of the offerors' technical and price proposals was unreasonable.' 'Although the solicitation anticipated award of a task order under an indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the solicitation stated that it sought proposals (continued...)

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