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B-406179.2 1 (2012-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadozm0001 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: NikSoft Systems Corporation File: B-406179.2 Date: August 14, 2012 Ron R. Hutchinson, Esq., Doyle & Bachman LLP, for the protester. Rafael A. Madan, Esq., John L. Pensinger, Esq., and Rhonda M. Craig, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement conducted under Federal Supply Schedule procedures, where a statement of work is included, protest that an agency improperly made upward adjustments to the protester's level of effort as part of its analysis to establish a blanket purchase agreement and to issue an order under it, is sustained where the record provides no basis for the agency's determination that the protester's level of effort was insufficient or that the protester's level of effort should be increased to the same level of effort proposed by the successful vendor. DECISION NikSoft Systems Corp., of Reston, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and placement of an initial call or task order to LS3 Incorporated, of Odenton, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 20110_049, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), for federal identity, credential and access management (FICAM) services to support the Office of the Chief Information Officer. NikSoft challenges the agency's evaluation of quotations and source selection decision. We sustain the protest.1 1 This is NikSoft's second protest of DOJ's evaluation and selection decision. Many of the facts set forth here were also included in our earlier decision in this procurement. See NikSoft Sys. Corp., B-406179, Feb, 29, 2012, 2012 CPD 104. In fact, the record for this protest includes the agency's report in response to (continued...)

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