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B-409582 1 (2014-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Newsun, Inc. d/b/a Internal Computer Services File: B-409582 Date: June 17, 2014 Eric M. Sudin, Newsun, Inc. d/b/a Internal Computer Services, for the protester. Michael P. Chiffolo, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging awardee should have been eliminated from competition during agency's corrective action review is dismissed as untimely where protest on same grounds initially was filed at agency level and denied, and was not filed with GAO until months later. 2. Protest alleging agency unreasonably decided not to hold discussions through reverse auction procedures is denied given that contracting officer has broad discretion in deciding whether to hold discussions and nothing in record indicates contracting officer abused this discretion. 3. Protest alleging agency bias is denied where protester does not support allegations with convincing proof and record does not reflect bias. DECISION Newsun, Inc. d/b/a Internal Computer Services (ICS), of Richmond, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Eiden Systems Corporation, of Richmond, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) no. SP470313Q5034 for information technology support. ICS asserts that Eiden should have been disqualified from the competition as part of corrective action that the agency took in response to an agency-level protest filed by ICS. ICS also asserts that the agency should have conducted a reverse auction as part of its corrective action and that the agency acted with bias against ICS. We deny the protest.

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