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B-414429,B-414429.2 1 (2017-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: IDIS, Corp. File: B-414429; B-414429.2 Date: June 12, 2017 Ryan J. Klein, Esq., Sherman & Howard LLC, for the protester. Otto S. Shill III, Esq., Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, PLC, for Metris LLC, the intervenor. Erin L. Hernandez, Esq., Russell R. Henry, Esq., and John W. Torresala, Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical acceptability is denied where the solicitation did not require the agency to conduct its evaluation as alleged by the protester, and where the agency did not consider pages in excess of the solicitation's page limit. DECISION IDIS, Corp., a small business, of Parker, Arizona, protests the award of a contract to Metris LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned, small business, of Gilbert, Arizona, by the Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. M00681-17-T-0012, for advanced high-altitude high-opening parachute support services for the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force. IDIS, the incumbent contractor, argues that the agency's evaluation of Metris' quotation was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Marine Corps issued the solicitation on January 26, 2017, under the commercial item acquisition and simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) part 12 and subpart 13.5. RFQ amend. No. 1 at 5. The RFQ contemplated the award of a single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for advanced high-altitude high-opening parachute support services. Id. at 6. The

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