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B-404863.7 1 (2013-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadprl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: ABSG Consulting, Inc. File: B-404863.7 Date: June 26, 2013 William J. Spriggs, Esq., Spriggs Law Group, for the protester. William H. Butterfield, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's price realism analysis and best-value tradeoff determination is denied where protester fails to show that either were unreasonable. DECISION ABSG Consulting, Inc. (ABSG) of Arlington, Virginia protests the award of six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts' by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Coast Guard, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG23-1 1 -R-TABSOO for technical, acquisition, and business support services.2 ABSG argues that the agency failed to perform an 1 The Coast Guard awarded contracts to MacAulay-Brown, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio; Booz Allen Hamilton, of McLean, Virginia; Enterprise Information Services, Inc., of Vienna, Virginia; ALON, Inc., of Springfield, Virginia; Paradigm Technologies, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia; and Computer Science Corporation, of Washington, DC. 2 The goal of this DHS acquisition is to establish multiple, department-wide, ID/IQ contracts, for a range of technical, acquisition, and business support services. These services were categorized into three domains: (1) program management, engineering and technology support services; (2) business management, financial management, and audit support services; and (3) contract management support services. RFP at 5. Each domain was then divided into tracks. Id. at 3. This protest pertains to the acquisition of domain 2 requirements, track 1, i.e., an unrestricted competition.

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