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B-414060 1 (2017-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtbh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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 Decision Ia GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. ................................................................................................................... Matter of: Soliel LLC File: B-414060 Date: January 26, 2017 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester., Dennis A. Adelson, Esq., and Peter J. Dickson, Esq., Department of Labor, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly rejected proposal that included information identifying the offeror where solicitation explicitly required that all identifying information be redacted from proposals. DECISION Soliel, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, protests the rejection of its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. DOL-OPS-16-R-00036, issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) for web support services. Soliel maintains that the agency unreasonably rejected its proposal for including information that revealed its identity, contrary to the terms of the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP was issued as a competitive acquisition under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a), and contemplates the award of a contract for a base year and four 1-year options to perform a variety of web support services. As is pertinent to the protest, the RFP required offerors to redact any information from their proposals that might identify the offering company. RFP Instructions to Offerors at 2; RFP Amendment 2, Offeror Questions and Answers, Questions 146, 164. The agency received a number of proposals in response to the solicitation, and after reviewing the proposal submitted by Soliel, DOL rejected it because it included

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