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B-413888.2,B-413888.3,B-413888.4,B-413888.5 1 (2017-06-21)

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GO U.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:   HP Enterprise Services, LLC

File:     B-413888.2; B-413888.3; B-413888.4; B-413888.5

Date:       June 21, 2017

Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Sharmistha Das, Esq., and Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Crowell &
Moring LLP, for the protester.
Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and Sean K. Griffin, Esq.,
Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the intervenor.
Elise Harris, Esq., and Corey J. Thompson, Esq., Department of Health and Human
Services, 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

1. Protest alleging that the agency failed to perform a price realism evaluation is
denied, where the fixed-price, time-and-materials solicitation did not obligate the agency
to perform a price realism evaluation.

2. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied, where the agency
had a reasonable basis for its evaluation of the awardee's proposal.

3. Protest challenging the agency's price evaluation is denied, where the agency
reasonably evaluated the awardee's price proposal.

4. Protest challenging agency's selection of lower-rated, lower-priced proposal for
award is denied, where agency reasonably determined that protester's higher technical
evaluation did not warrant associated price premium.
DECISION

HP Enterprise Services, LLC (HPES), of Herndon, Virginia, protests the award of a task
order to Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. (Dell), of Herndon, Virginia, by the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. 2016-CIMS-
OCOO-ITSO-ITI-272, which was issued by the CDC to acquire information technology
and support services. The protester contends that the agency failed to perform a

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