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B-416504 1 (2018-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: BDO USA, LLP File: B-416504 Date: September 14, 2018 James W. Kim, Esq., and Llewelyn M. Engel, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, for the protester. Colonel C. Taylor Smith and Lieutenant Colonel Byron Shibata, Department of the Air Force, and Kenneth M. Roth, Esq., Melinda J. Lewis, Esq., and Robert E. Bowers, Esq., United States Transportation Command, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's rejection of the protester's quotation as ineligible for award under a solicitation issued to vendors under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Professional Supply Schedule (PSS) is denied, where the protester failed to establish that the entity holding the GSA PSS contract possessed a secret facility clearance at the time it submitted its quotation, as required by the solicitation. DECISION BDO USA, LLP (BDO), of Chicago, Illinois, protests its exclusion from the competition by the United States Transportation Command under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HTC711-18-Q-Do11 for joint financial operations and systems support services. The protester contends that the agency improperly concluded that its quotation was ineligible for award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ on April 24, 2018, to holders of General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Professional Services Schedule (PSS) contracts using Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 procedures. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ, at 1, 6. The services required include accounting

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