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B-415217.4 1 (2018-08-27)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:  Universal Consulting Services, Inc.

File:       B-415217.4

Date:       August 27, 2018

Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Megan C. Connor, Esq., Kathryn M. Kelley, Esq., Patrick R.
Rothwell, Esq., and Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester.
J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., William T. Welch, Esq., and Orest J. Jowyk, Esq., McMahon,
Welch and Learned, PLLC, for Zolon Tech, Inc., the intervenor.
Scott N. Flesch, Esq., and Major Bruce H. Robinson, Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the reasonableness of an agency's evaluation of technical
proposals is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated
proposals consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria.
DECISION

Universal Consulting Services, Inc. (UCS), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the issuance of
a task order to Zolon Tech, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP)
No. CSE-1 7-0001, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), for information management, information
technology, and related support services for various agency programs. The protester
challenges the agency's evaluation of technical proposals.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The procurement was limited to firms holding a Chief Information Officer-Solutions and
Partners 3 Small Business Governmentwide Acquisition Contract administered by the
National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment
Center. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RFP amend. 3, Conformed RFP at 1. The RFP
sought proposals for the issuance of a single fixed-price task order, with a transition

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