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B-407682.2,B-407682.3 1 (2013-01-28)

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 G              A    O                                                   Comptroller General
Accountab     ilIty * Integrity * ReIiability                            of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office  DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
  Washington, DC 20548
                                                     I 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:  Bahrain Telecommunications Company, B.S.C.

           File:       B-407682.2; B-407682.3

           Date:       January 28, 2013

           Bonnie A. Vanzler, Esq., Daniel J. Kelly, Esq., and Robert A. Mintz, Esq., McCarter
           & English, LLP, for the protester.
           Scott P. Fitzsimmons, Esq., Sheila U. Sears, Esq., and Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., Watt,
           Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the intervenor.
           Christine Elizabeth Jacoby, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the
           agency.
           Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General
           Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest is sustained where the awardee took exception to material solicitation
           requirements and the agency does not reasonably explain how it concluded that the
           awardee's quotation met the requirements.
           DECISION

           Bahrain Telecommunications Company, B.S.C., doing business as Batelco, of
           Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, protests the issuance of a delivery order to 2Connect
           W.L.L., also of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, under solicitation No. TSR
           RE12MAR125241, which was issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency
           (DISA), Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) for a
           communications circuit. The protester contends that 2Connect's quotation took
           exception to material solicitation requirements, and that the agency did not
           reasonably evaluate the awardee's quotation.

           We sustain the protest.

           On April 1, 2012, DISA issued the solicitation, which requested quotations from
           vendors holding existing ordering agreements with DITCO for telecommunications
           services. The solicitation required vendors to propose solutions for delivery of a

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