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B-413104.9 1 (2017-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtgm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG 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 wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision ....-.-------------- Matter of: Leader Communications, Inc. File: B-413104.9 Date: March 17, 2017 Maria L. Panichelli, Esq., and Robert G. Ruggieri, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, for the protester. Seeta Rebbapragada, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, 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 elimination from competition is denied where agency reasonably found that the protester's proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's specific instructions for providing verification of an adequate cost accounting system from the Defense Contract Audit Agency. DECISION Leader Communications, Inc. (Leader), of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, protests the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s exclusion of the protester's proposal from further consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2016015, for information technology (IT) supplies and services. The protester argues that the agency's exclusion of its proposal based on a failure to submit verification of an adequate cost accounting system from the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Pursuant to Section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, 40 U.S.C. § 11302(e), the Office of Management and Budget has designated NIH as an

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