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B-413390.5 1 (2016-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtjk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 wassubject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Avid Technology Professionals, LLC File: B-413390.5 Date: December 2, 2016 H. Todd Whay, Esq., The Whay Law Firm, for the protester. James B. Wyatt, Esq., and William R. Buonaccorsi, 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 technically unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester's proposal failed to comply with a material solicitation requirement. DECISION Avid Technology Professionals, LLC, a small business located in Columbia, Maryland, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. H98230-14-R-0069, which was issued by the Maryland Procurement Office, National Security Agency (NSA), Central Security Service, for business, engineering, information technology, operations, and training support services. Avid 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 is $800 million. Contracting Officer (CO) Statement at 1. Over the life of the contract, the agency anticipates competing more than seventy task orders. Id. at 2.

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