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B-414183.8,B-414183.9,B-414183.10,B-414183.11,B-414183.12,B-414183.13 1 (2017-12-22)

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GAOU.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
                                             a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
                                             approved for public release.
                                             - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Matter of:  Red River Computer Company, Inc.; MIS Sciences Corporation

File:       B-414183.8; B-414183.9; B-414183.10; B-414183.11; B-414183.12;
            B-414183.13

Date:       December 22, 2017

Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Rodney M. Perry, Esq.,
Holland & Knight LLP, for Red River Computer Company, Inc.; David S. Black, Esq.,
Eric S. Crusius, Esq., Thomas M. Brownell, Esq., and Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., Holland &
Knight LLP, for MIS Sciences Corporation, the protesters.
William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for InfoReliance
LLC; James C. Fontana, Esq., Jeffry R. Cook, Esq., and L. James D'Agostino, Esq.,
Dempsey Fontana, PLLC, for GovPlace, Inc.; Francis E. Purcell Jr., Esq., Thomas 0.
Mason, Esq., Raymond C. McCann, Esq., and Joseph R. Berger, Esq., Thompson Hine
LLP, for Knight Point Systems, LLC, the intervenors.
James C. Richardson Jr., Esq., and Peter G. Hartman, Esq., Department of Homeland
Security, for the agency.
Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest of the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for cloud
computing services against a vendor's General Services Administration Federal Supply
Schedule (FSS) contract is denied where the contracting agency properly determined
that the services called for under the BPA were within the scope of the vendor's FSS
contract.

2. Protest challenging agency's technical evaluation is denied where the agency
evaluated quotations in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria and did not treat
vendors unequally.

3. Protest asserting that agency conducted discussions with four vendors, but not with
all of the vendors, is denied where the letter sent by the agency to the four vendors
constituted clarifications rather than discussions.

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