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B-415840 1 (2018-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadumz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 Decisionapproved for public release. D e c is io n ...... . o.......... ....p. . i.... ....l.... .....s.. ............................................................ Matter of: Windsor Solutions File: B-415840 Date: March 23, 2018 Matthew R. Keller, Esq., Matthew Keller Law, PLLC, for the protester. Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., and Shane J. McCall, Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for Plateau Software, Inc., the intervenor. Sara E. McGraw, Esq., and Kenneth Pakula, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the technical acceptability of the awardee's quotation for allegedly failing to satisfy a material solicitation requirement is denied where the agency's answers to vendors' questions on the solicitation unequivocally clarified that the stated objective was not a mandatory requirement. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of multiple deficiencies in the protester's quotation is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable, documented, and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Windsor Solutions, Inc., a small business, of Portland, Oregon, protests the issuance of a task order under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to Plateau Software, Inc., a small business, of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1170151, which was issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for smart mobile tools for field inspectors. Windsor primarily challenges the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation of technical quotations. We deny the protest.

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