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B-412468.9 1 (2017-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtig0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: DataSource, Inc. File: B-412468.9 Date: April 14, 2017 Pamela W. Hopkins for the protester. John R. Tolle, Esq., and H. Todd Whay, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for Imagine One Technology & Management, Ltd., an intervenor. Michelle S. Bennett, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency engaged in unequal treatment by eliminating protester's proposal from the competition is dismissed as legally and factually insufficient where protester fails to assert that any proposal retained in the competition contained errors similar to the error identified in protester's proposal. DECISION DataSource, Inc., a woman-owned, small business located in McLean, Virginia, challenges the issuance of a task order by the Department of the Navy to Imagine One Technology & Management, Ltd., of Colonial Beach, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-14-R-3125, for information technology support services. The protester argues that the agency engaged in preferential and unequal treatment by excluding DataSource's proposal from the competition as non-compliant with the RFP and then issuing a task order to Imagine One despite alleged errors in Imagine One's proposal. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on September 17, 2014, under the Navy's SEAPORT-e multiple-award contract, seeking a contractor to provide engineering and professional services in support of ship maintenance systems information technology for the Navy's maritime maintenance enterprise solution. The RFP contemplated the issuance of a

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