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B-414691,B-414691.2 1 (2017-08-17)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC

File:       B-414691; B-414691.2

Date:       August 17, 2017

Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Rodney M. Perry, Esq.,
Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester.
Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell &
Moring LLP, for the intervenor.
Travis L. Vaughan, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency.
Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of quotations and issuance of a task order
is denied where the record shows that the evaluation and source selection decision
were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task
order to Expression Networks, LLC, of Washington, D.C., under request for quotations
(RFQ) No. 1184324, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA), for software engineering and information technology services.
Harmonia challenges the agency's technical evaluation and source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On April 7, 2017, DISA issued the solicitation on behalf of the Defense Spectrum
Organization (DSO) to small businesses holding contracts under General Services
Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 70, General Purpose Commercial
Information Technology Equipment, Software, and Services. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 2, RFQ § 1; Contracting Officer's Statement & Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL)
§ I. The RFQ included a detailed performance work statement (PWS) specifying
over 100 tasks and deliverables that the vendor must provide to sustain DSO's Joint

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