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B-412368.3 1 (2016-04-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acuunta bity !ntegrty Reliabiity 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: Encentric, Inc. File: B-412368.3 Date: April 19, 2016 Jennifer S. Zucker, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., and George E. Petel, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Buchanan & Edwards, Inc., the intervenor. Tudo N. Pham, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a best-value procurement, agency reasonably selected higher-rated and lower-priced quotation for issuance of a task order, where evaluation was consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria and the agency's conclusions were reasonably based. DECISION Encentric, Inc., a small business headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and the incumbent contractor, protests the issuance of a task order to Buchanan and Edwards, Inc., (B&E), located in Arlington, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SAQMMA1 5Q0209, issued by the Department of State, for maintenance, operation, and management of PeopleSoft v9.x or later in a production environment, including any follow-on functional requirements and application support. This competition was conducted among firms holding one of the General Services Administration's (GSA) 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II (STARS II) government-wide acquisition contracts.1 We deny the protest. 1 Because the value of the task order is over $10 million, our Office has jurisdiction to review this protest. 41 U.S.C. § 4106(f)(1)(B).

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