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B-410763,B-410763.3 1 (2015-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqyh0001 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: PCMG; Computer Security Solutions, LLC File: B-410763; B-410763.3 Date: February 5, 2015 Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., and James K. Kearney, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, for PCMG; and John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Charlotte E. Gillingham, Esq., and Ming Yuan Zhou, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Computer Security Solutions, LLC, protesters. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests challenging an agency's rejection of protesters' proposals for failing to include technical literature are denied where record shows protesters failed to include such information, and the information was a material requirement of the solicitation. DECISION PCMG, of Chantilly, Virginia, and Computer Security Solutions, LLC (CSS), of McLean, Virginia, protest the elimination of their respective proposals under request for proposals No. NIHJT2014002, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, to acquire information technology (IT) commodities and solutions. The protesters maintain that the agency unreasonably eliminated their proposals from consideration for failing to include technical literature. We deny the protests. The RFP contemplates the award of 40-50 government-wide indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts to provide an array of IT commodities and solutions for a 10-year period. The estimated total value of the contracts is $20 billion. RFP § B.5. In general, the RFP contemplates award on a best-value basis, considering price and several non-price factors, with the non-price factors deemed significantly

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