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B-414751.2 1 (2017-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtur0001 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 Decision Matter of: Fairwater Associates File: B-414751.2 Date: September 11, 2017 Kip Pagach for the protester. Andrew N. Christopher, Esq., James E. Vaiden, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the terms of the solicitation failed to adequately define requirements and lacked information needed to prepare competitive proposals is denied where the agency responded to a significant number of offeror questions, and the solicitation was adequate for offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. DECISION Fairwater Associates, of Norfolk, Virginia, protests the terms of solicitation No. N001 89- 17-R-0050, issued by the Department of the Navy, Navy Supply Systems Command, for the procurement of a user-friendly web-enabled reverse auction tool. Fairwater alleges that the solicitation's requirements are insufficiently defined, and inadequate to promote a uniform and fair competition between non-incumbent contractors and the incumbent firm. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on April 12, 2017, for the purpose of awarding a follow-on contract to fulfil the agency's web-enabled reverse auction tool requirement, currently provided under a task order held by FedBid, Inc. The resultant contract is expected to be a no-cost contract, under which the contractor will be compensated through transaction fees paid directly by vendors that receive awards in procurements conducted through the reverse auction tool. The solicitation provided that the award

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