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B-411530,B-411530.2 1 (2015-08-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrkt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General c 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. Decision Matter of: InfoZen, Inc. File: B-411530; B-411530.2 Date: August 12, 2015 H. Todd Whay, Esq., The Whay Law Firm, for the protester. James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly & Roberts PLLC, for Smartronix, Inc., the intervenor. George Tereschuk, Esq., and John J. Reynolds, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably found the successful vendor's price was fair and reasonable is denied where the agency determined the successful vendor's evaluated price was slightly lower than the independent estimate, and where the record showed the price ranked in middle of the prices proposed by other vendors. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably found that successful vendor's price was not unbalanced is denied where, although agency failed to consider the risk posed by apparent unbalanced pricing in awardee's proposal, the protester merely speculated that the agency would fail to obtain the benefit of awardee's much lower pricing in later years of performance, and thus failed to show prejudice. DECISION InfoZen, Inc., of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order1 to Smartronix, Inc., of Hollywood, Maryland, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA1 18-15-R-0028 for commercial 1 The RFP anticipated issuance of a task order to a contractor under the General Services Administration's Alliant multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract program. We have protest jurisdiction because the task order at issue is valued over $10 million. 41 U.S.C. § 4106(f) (2012).

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