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B-411209.7 1 (2016-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadshi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General . w Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Nexagen Networks, Inc. File: B-411209.7 Date: June 20, 2016 Rajesh Parikh, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging solicitation requirements as unduly restrictive and reflecting bias in favor of the incumbent contractor is denied where the record supports the agency's position that the requirement is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Nexagen Networks, Inc. (Nexagen), of Aberdeen, Maryland, challenges the terms of task order request (TOR) SSES-R-2057, issued by the Department of the Army for certain information technology services. Nexagen argues that the solicitation's requirements for experience with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) is unduly restrictive of competition and reflects bias in favor of the incumbent contractor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on February 12, 2016, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 16 to firms that had been awarded a Systems and Software Engineering Support Next Generation (SSES Nexgen) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-

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