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B-409666.3,B-409666.4 1 (2014-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqmp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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: Hughes Network Systems, LLC File: B-409666.3; B-409666.4 Date: August 11, 2014 Walter A.l. Wilson, Esq., Daniel J. Donohue, Esq., Grace 0. Aduroja, Esq., and Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., Polsinelli PC, for the protester. Lori Ann Lange, Esq., and Nick R. Hoogstraten, Esq., Peckar & Abramson, PC, for Artel, LLC, an intervenor. Daniel Hutman, Esq., and Uri R. Ko, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's corrective action, which included the evaluation of revised quotes, is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that ambiguities identified as a result of protester's initial protest are susceptible to correction through the submission of revised quotations. DECISION Hughes Network Systems, LLC, of Germantown, Maryland, protests the corrective action taken in connection with request for quotation (RFQ) No. SSA-RFQ-14-1108, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for satellite services and maintenance. Hughes maintains that the submission of revised quotations as part of the agency's corrective action is improper. We deny the protest BACKGROUND SSA issued the RFQ on December 20, 2013, to holders of General Services Administration's (GSA) custom satellite communication II (CS2) multiple agency contract (MAC). The RFQ provided for the issuance of a fixed-price task order with a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. RFQ at 8. Pursuant to the RFQ, SSA would issue the task order to the vendor whose quotation was most

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