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B-414852 1 (2017-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtwo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: CTIS, Inc. File: B-414852 Date: October 3, 2017 James W. Kim, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, and Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that solicitation contained a latent ambiguity is denied where the protester's interpretation of the solicitation language is not reasonable. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's quotation and its exclusion from the competition is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable. DECISION CTIS, Inc., a small business of Rockville, Maryland, protests its exclusion from the competition under request for quotations (RFQ) No. D1 7PS00345, issued by the Department of the Interior for a task order for enterprise software support services. The protester argues that the agency improperly excluded its quotation for failing to respond to two Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions that were included in the RFQ. The protester also contends that its quotation should have been evaluated as responding to all the solicitation's requirements. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Department of the Interior, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, issued the RFQ on May 3, 2017, to awardees of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, (NITAAC) Chief Information Office, Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Small Business (SB)

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