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B-413703.8 1 (2017-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtjs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 ---------- DO-C-U-ME --T FO R PU __ BLI-C R-EL -LEA- SE ........... The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Systems Plus, Inc. File: B-413703.8 Date: May 10, 2017 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Ken Lieb, Esq., and John G. Terra, Esq., Defense Health Agency, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's corrective action, taken in response to an earlier Government Accountability Office protest, which consisted of responding to vendors' questions, publishing vendors' ratings and proposed prices, amending the solicitation, and requesting revised quotations, rather than reevaluating existing offers, is denied where the agency's decision was reasonably structured to remedy the flaw which the agency believes exists in its procurement process. DECISION Systems Plus, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the corrective action taken by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) in response to an earlier protest regarding request for quotations (RFQ) No. HT001 5-16-R-001 9, which was issued to acquire training support services for various legacy software applications. Systems Plus contends that DHA's decision to amend the solicitation and request revised quotations as part of the corrective action, rather than simply reevaluate vendors' past performance, was an unreasonable response to the earlier protest grounds challenging the agency's past performance evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DHA issued the solicitation as a request for proposals (RFP) on May 20, 2016, as a small business set-aside under General Services Administration (GSA) schedule IT 70, via the GSA e-Buy system, under Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 8.4.

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