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B-409628 1 (2014-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjs0001 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: Veteran Technologists Corporation File: B-409628 Date: June 25, 2014 John P. McDade for the protester. Krishon Gill-Edmond, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's exclusion of protester's proposal from further consideration for failure to acknowledge amendments is denied where the record shows that the agency's actions were consistent with the solicitation which required the contractor's signature on all amendments. DECISION Veterans Technologists Corp (Vet Tech), of Aberdeen, Maryland, protests its exclusion from consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA 19A-1 3-R- 0210 issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for general management and business support services. Vet Tech argues that its exclusion for failing to sign and return amendments is improper because the firm acknowledged the amendments in its proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was set aside for veteran-owned small business concerns, provided for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts each with an ordering period of five years. RFP at 1, 8. The RFP required that each offeror's proposal consist of five volumes: (1) technical capability; (2) performance risk; (3) staffing plan; (4) price; and (5) SF 1449, amendments, and other documents.' Id. at 66. With regard to the SF 1449 and 1 Awards were to be made on a best-value basis considering technical capability, performance risk, staffing plan, and price. The first two factors were equally (continued...)

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