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B-416443,B-416443.2 1 (2018-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvbh0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. L ................................................................................................................. Decision Matter of: GC Services Limited Partnership File: Date: B-416443; B-416443.2 September 5, 2018 William M. Jack, Esq., William MacLeod, Esq., and Amba M. Datta, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for the protester. Sara Falk, Esq., Department of Education, 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 alleging that the agency failed to amend a solicitation issued pursuant to the flexible, two-phase procurement authority of 20 U.S.C. § 1018a for Phase I responses to reflect material changes to the agency's requirements is denied where the solicitation provided a sufficient general description of the purpose of the procurement, and the protest allegations are otherwise premature as they merely anticipate that the agency will evaluate responses unreasonably. DECISION GC Services Limited Partnership, of Houston, Texas, challenges the terms of the Department of Education's (DOE) request for proposals (RFP) for the agency's Next Generation Financial Services Environment (the NextGen Environment). GC Services alleges that the solicitation is defective because it does not reflect the agency's actual requirements based on the agency's proposed corrective action taken in response to protests relating to a different DOE procurement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The core mission of DOE's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is to ensure that all eligible customers benefit from federal financial assistance for education beyond high

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