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B-416254,B-416254.2 1 (2018-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadutv0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Magellan Federal File: B-416254; B-416254.2 Date: June 7, 2018 Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Tony A. Ross, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, 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 Protest that solicitation included a latent ambiguity is denied where the protester's reading of the solicitation is not reasonable. DECISION Armed Forces Services Corporation d/b/a Magellan Federal, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 18-233- SOL-00040, which was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Program Support Center, Federal Occupational Health Services, for a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to support the agency's Employee Assistance and Worklife Programs. Magellan Federal alleges that the exclusion of its quotation from the competition for failing to possess a current and active authority to operate (ATO) issued by a government agency was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND HHS issued the RFQ on December 1, 2017, to holders of the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule 738 X Human Resources & Equal Employment Opportunity Services contract for a BPA to support the agency's Employee

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