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B-416123,B-416123.2,B-416123.3 1 (2018-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduvd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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: NTT DATA Services Federal Government, Inc. File: B-416123; B-416123.2; B-416123.3 Date: June 20, 2018 Kevin J. Maynard, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Gary S. Ward, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Sarah Hansen, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. John W. Chierichella, Esq., Keith R. Szeliga, Esq., Katie Calogero, Esq., and Adam Bartolanzo, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, for International Business Machines Corporation, an intervenor. Sara Falk, Esq., and Jose Otero, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of proposals is dismissed where record shows that protester was not prejudiced by any evaluation errors allegedly committed in the evaluation of its quotation, and protester is not an interested party to challenge the evaluation of the awardee's quotation. 2. Protest alleging that agency engaged in unequal discussions is denied where record shows that, in conducting a task order acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 16, agency effectively established a competitive range that excluded the protester before conducting further negotiations with remaining concerns. DECISION NTT DATA Services Federal Government, Inc. (DSFG),1 of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. ED-CIO-17-Q-0016, 1 Shortly before submitting its quotation for this acquisition, the protester changed its name from Dell Services Federal Government, Inc. to NTT Data Services Federal Government, Inc. Throughout the record, the protester is referred to as DSFG or NDSFG. For ease of reference, we refer to the protester as DSFG in this decision.

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