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B-414852.2 1 (2017-11-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtzy0001 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: FEI Systems File: B-414852.2 Date: November 17, 2017 Shelton H. Skolnick, Esq., FEi Systems, 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 the 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. 3. Protest alleging that agency should have allowed protester to submit clarifications is denied where agency was not required to request clarifications from protester. 4. Protest alleging that agency's decision not to allow the protester an opportunity to correct defects in its proposal violated the Federal Acquisition Regulation, harms competition, and is against the taxpayer's interest, is dismissed where the allegations fail to establish the likelihood that the agency violated applicable procurement laws or regulations. DECISION FEi Systems, a small business of Columbia, Maryland, protests its exclusion from the competition under request for quotations (RFQ) No. D1 7PS00345, issued by the Department of the Interior (Dol) 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. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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