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B-408865.2,B-408865.3 1 (2014-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqkx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * 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. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: System Integration and Development, Inc. File: B-408865.2; B-408865.3 Date: July 10, 2014 Donald J. Walsh, Esq., Offit Kurman, for the protester. David R. Koeppel, Esq., and Savannah L. Wilson, Esq., Department of Labor, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency acted improperly in considering the past performance of the joint venture partners, rather than limiting the evaluation to only the joint venture itself, is denied; solicitation prohibition on considering past performance of subcontractors did not apply to joint venture partners, and there is nothing improper in an agency considering the past performance of the entities that make up a joint venture in the absence of a solicitation provision that prohibits the agency from doing so. DECISION System Integration and Development, Inc. (SID), of Rockville, Maryland, protests the Department of Labor's award of a contract to Advanced Quality Alliance (AQA), of Sterling, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DOLl 31 RP21686, for information technology systems operation and maintenance for the agency's wage and hour division. SID asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated AQA's proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued as a small business set-aside, sought a single contractor to support both the Wage and Hour Division's wage determination system (WDS) and its strategic enforcement systems (WHISARD). Currently, SID is the incumbent contractor for the WDS, and ECS Federal (which along with Strongbridge

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