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B-413390.3 1 (2016-11-01)

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         G    A     0                                                  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.
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         Matter of:   Zavda Technologies LLC

         File:        B-413390.3

         Date:        November 1,2016

         H. Todd Whay, Esq., The Whay Law Firm, for the protester.
         Egon F. Donnarumma, Esq., and James Wyatt, Esq., National Security Agency,
         for the agency.
         Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
         Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as
         unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably found that the protester's
         proposal failed to address a mandatory technical requirement.
         DECISION

         Zavda Technologies, LLC, of Columbia, Maryland, a small business, protests the
         exclusion of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP)
         No. H98230-14-R-0069, issued by the Maryland Procurement Office, National
         Security Agency (NSA), Central Security Service, for business, engineering,
         information technology, operations, and training support services. Zavda argues
         that NSA improperly found its proposal technically unacceptable and ineligible for
         award.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         On July 21, 2014, NSA issued the solicitation, referred to as NSETS III, which was
         set aside for small business concerns, and anticipated the award of approximately
         fifteen indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for a period of five
         years. RFP at 9. The estimated contract ceiling for NSETS III was $800 million.
         Contracting Officer (CO) Statement at 1. Over the life of the contract, the agency
         anticipated competing more than seventy task orders. Id. at 2.

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