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B-415508.4 1 (2018-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Castro & Company, LLC File: B-415508.4 Date: February 13, 2018 Thomas Castro, Castro & Company, LLC, for the protester. Victor A. Kubli, Esq., Law Office of Victor A. Kubli, PC, for the intervenor. Michael Kiffney, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's restriction on quotation revisions after amending solicitation in response to an earlier protest is sustained where the amendment materially impacted aspects of the protester's quotation outside of the areas permitted by the agency for revision. DECISION Castro & Company, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSTS01 -1 7-Q-FIN001, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for financial statement audit and internal control support services. Castro protests a restriction on the scope of quotation revisions included in an amendment to the solicitation issued by the agency. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on March 29, 2017, sought quotations from holders of the General Services Administration's (GSA) Professional Service Schedule, Special Item Number (SIN) 520-7 (Financial & Performance Audits) contracts. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFQ, at 1. The RFQ, as issued, specified two required tasks: internal control support services (task 1) and financial statement audit support (task 2); and two optional tasks: new guidance surge support (optional task 3) and financial services replacement surge support (optional task 4). Id. at 2-6. Each of the tasks was to be priced as separate contract line item numbers (CLINs) on a fixed-price basis. Id. As relevant to this

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