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B-414230.3,B-414230.4 1 (2018-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcn0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approvedforpublic release. Matter of: Enterprise Services LLC File: B-414230.3; B-414230.4 Date: September 17, 2018 Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Christian N. Curran, Esq., and Lauren H. Williams, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Craig S. King, Esq., and Richard J. Webber, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for CACI, Inc.- Federal, the intervenor. Christian F.P. Jordan, Esq., Michael Kiffney, Esq., and Christopher J. Reames, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging assignment of significant weaknesses to proposal is denied where the record confirms that the agency's concerns were valid because the protester's allocation of certain costs was contrary to the solicitation's direction. 2. Protest alleging that agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions is denied where the agency was not required to discuss significant weaknesses that first appeared due to a solicitation amendment that was issued after the agency conducted discussions. 3. Protest arguing that awardee impermissibly qualified its fixed prices is denied where awardee merely identified thresholds for changes in volumetric data that would result in discussions with the agency, as required by the solicitation. DECISION Enterprise Services LLC, (ES) of Herndon, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to CACI, Inc.-Federal, of Chantilly, Virginia, pursuant to task order request for proposals (TORP) No. HSTS03-16-R-CIO001, which was issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for information technology (IT) support services. ES challenges the assignment of two significant weaknesses to its proposal, objects to the agency's discussions, and asserts that CACI's proposal impermissibly qualified its fixed prices.

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