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B-410246,B-410246.2 1 (2014-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqxu0001 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: AIS Engineering, Inc. File: B-410246; B-410246.2 Date: November 21, 2014 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. John E. Jensen, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Travis L. Mullaney, Esq., and Meghan d. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for UltiSat, Inc., an intervenor. Ronald D. Sullivan, Esq., Vincent H. Buonocore, Esq., and Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, 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 Where solicitation required submission of both an unsanitized and a sanitized (with identifying information deleted) version of proposals, protest that agency should have rejected awardee's proposal for failing to submit unsanitized version at the time initial proposals were due is denied where awardee submitted a sanitized version which was, as anticipated by the agency, used for evaluation purposes, and submitted an unsanitized version with its final proposal revision. DECISION AIS Engineering, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) decision to issue a task order to UltiSat, Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA 18A-1 4-R-0092, for support services for VA satellite communication infrastructure. AIS asserts that UltiSat failed to submit a complete proposal, and that the agency failed to consider whether UltiSat's proposed price was unbalanced. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for the issuance of a task order, under a General Services Administration (GSA) Custom SATCOM Solutions small business indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract, to operate and maintain the

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