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B-407186.2,B-407186.3 1 (2013-03-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpkr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rellability 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. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Harmonia Holdings, LLC File: B-407186.2; B-407186.3 Date: March 5, 2013 Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Fluet Huber + Hoang PLLC, for the protester. Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and Armani Vadiee, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for Ardent Management Consulting, Inc., an intervenor. Lucinda E. Davis, Esq., Ryan M. Warrenfeltz, Sr., Esq., and Justin A. Coon, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation for commercial services lacked information needed to prepare proposals is denied where agency responded to multiple rounds of offeror questions and provided sufficient information in its responses for offerors to prepare competitive offers. 2. Protest that agency failed to provide adequate time to prepare proposals is denied because, even though amendments were issued in the days before proposals were due, those amendments provided answers to offerors' questions that did not require significant revisions to proposals, and thus, agency's decision not to extend the due date for proposals did not affect the competition adversely. 3. Protest that incumbent contractor should have been excluded from competition for software development services due to alleged organizational conflicts of interest is denied where protester failed to provide hard facts that incumbent possessed an unfair advantage. DECISION Harmonia Holdings, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, a small business, protested the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-12-1052, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for geographic information system (GIS) services to support the SSA's emergency preparedness mission. Harmonia argued that (1) the

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