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B-413104.5,B-413104.6 1 (2016-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsuc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: AttainX, Inc.; FreeAlliance.com, LLC File: B-413104.5; B-413104.6 Date: November 10, 2016 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., and Julia Di Vito, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for AttainX, Inc.; Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., and Candace M. Shields, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for FreeAlliance.com, LLC, the protesters. Seeta Rebbapragada, Esq., and Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 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 Protests challenging elimination from competition are denied where agency reasonably found that the protesters failed to comply with the solicitation's specific instructions for providing verification of an adequate cost accounting system from a third-party certified public accounting firm. DECISION AttainX, Inc., of Lynchburg, Virginia, and FreeAlliance.com, LLC, of Washington, DC, protest the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s exclusion of the protesters' proposals from further consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2016015, for information technology (IT) supplies and services. The protesters argue that the agency's exclusion of their proposals, based on failure to submit specific verification of an adequate cost accounting system for all contractor team arrangement (CTA) members, amounted to a non-responsibility determination that should have been referred to the Small Business Administration (SBA) under SBA's certificate of competency (COC) procedures. We deny the protests.

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