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B-410898.5 1 (2016-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Harris IT Services Corporation File: B-410898.5 Date: February 23, 2016 Andrew E. Shipley, Esq., Lee P. Curtis, Esq., John F. Henault, Esq., and Seth H. Locke, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for the protester. Desiree A. DiCorcia, Esq., Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Tiffany Alford, Esq., and Lea Duerinck, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of sample task responses using model answers that were not disclosed to offerors is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 2. Protest that agency failed to meaningfully consider all evaluation factors when establishing competitive range is denied where record reflects that agency's competitive range determination was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Harris IT Services Corporation, of Herndon, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA1 18- 15-R-0558, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for information technology (IT) services.' The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its technical proposal and contends that the VA failed to meaningfully consider all of the evaluation factors when establishing the competitive range. We deny the protest. 1 The procurement at issue is commonly referred to as the Transformation Twenty- One Total Technology Next Generation procurement, or T4NG. Contracting Officer's (CO's) Statement at 1.

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