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B-415422,B-415422.2 1 (2018-01-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduff0001 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: Occam Solutions, Inc. File: B-415422; B-415422.2 Date: January 9, 2018 John E. Jensen, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for Zentech, an intervenor. Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that an agency's amendment of a solicitation, issued after the closing time for vendors to submit an opt-in statement, waived a material requirement, and that the requirement precluded the protester from competing, is denied where the amendment did not meaningfully alter the requirement. DECISION Occam Solutions, Inc., an 8(a) small business of Herndon, Virginia, protests the manner in which the Small Business Administration (SBA) conducted a task order procurement under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SBAHQ-1 7-R-0001, for enterprise information technology security services, resulting in the issuance of a task order to Zentech, an 8(a) small business of Arlington, Virginia. The protester alleges that the agency failed to provide Occam a fair opportunity to compete for the task order, and that the SBA waived or relaxed a material requirement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on June 29, 2017, via the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy system to vendors holding GSA's 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II (STARS II) government-wide acquisition contract. Memorandum of Law (MOL), at 2. The solicitation sought quotations to provide various information technology security services to support the SBA's Office of the Chief

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