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B-409867 1 (2014-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jGA Comptroller 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: Future Technologies Consulting Group, Inc. File: B-409867 Date: August 13, 2014 Robert Stoutenburgh, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the intervenor. Lea E. Duerinck, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably found protester's quotation, for electronic storage media sanitization, technically unacceptable where quotation failed to address a requirement for a secure, Federal Information Processing Standards-compliant, web portal, and failed to address adequately a requirement for help desk support during normal agency work hours. 2. Agency was not required to engage in clarifications with protester with regard to evaluated deficiencies, since an agency may, but is not required to, engage in clarifications and, in any case, clarifications cannot be used to cure proposal deficiencies or material omissions. DECISION Future Technologies Group, Inc. (FTCG), of Marietta, Georgia, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) award of a contract to Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (IDI), of Ashburn, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA118-14-Q- 0219, for services and supplies related to VA's Electronic Storage Media Sanitization Program (ESMSP). The protester asserts that its quotation was improperly evaluated and that VA should have engaged in clarifications to resolve issues regarding the protester's compliance with solicitation requirements. We deny the protest.

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