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B-416222,B-416222.2 1 (2018-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduxo0001 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: Horizon Industries, Ltd. File: B-416222; B-416222.2 Date: July 11, 2018 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Samuel M. Shapiro., Esq., and Rebecca Lunceford Kolb, Esq., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, for the protester. Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine S. Saphier, Esq., Effectus, PLLC, for Indigo IT LLC, an intervenor. Melanie T. Dasher, Esq., and Kimberly L. Cohen, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where the evaluation conclusions were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation, adequately documented, and did not employ unstated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the selection of the higher technically-rated, higher-priced proposal was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Horizon Industries, Ltd., a small business of Vienna, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Indigo IT, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSBP1017ROO38, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for patch and release management services (PRMS) for CBP's Office of Information and Technology (OIT). This competition was conducted among firms holding one of the General Services Administration's (GSA) 8(a) STARS II contracts.1 Horizon challenges the agency's technical evaluation and source selection decision. 1 The STARS II (Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II) contracts are multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts (continued...)

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