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B-410352.4 1 (2015-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqzk0001 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: Alliant Enterprise JV, LLC File: B-410352.4 Date: February 25, 2015 Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, and Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Andrew Bramnick, Esq., Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's corrective action, which includes the clarification of existing price quotations, 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 clarifications. DECISION Alliant Enterprise JV, LLC (AEJV), protests the corrective action being taken by the Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 874576 for information technology (IT) support services for the Defense Acquisition University. AEJV maintains that the agency's corrective action is improper. We deny the protest. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a hybrid fixed-price/labor-hour task order for a base year with four 1-year options against the successful vendor's General Services Administration Alliant small business government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC).1 The solicitation established three evaluation criteria--technical approach, 1 The Alliant GWAC is a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for various IT services. The estimated value of the task order at issue is in excess of $10 million. Accordingly, this procurement is within our jurisdiction to (continued...)

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