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B-416658,B-416658.2 1 (2018-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvgo0001 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: AOC Connect, LLC File: B-416658; B-416658.2 Date: November 8, 2018 David B. Dempsey, Esq., James C. Fontana, Esq., Jeffry R. Cook, Esq., and William Weisberg, Esq., Dempsey Fontana, PLLC, for the protester. Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and George E. Stewart, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for CenturyLink QGS, the intervenor. Meredith Skowronski, Esq., Library of Congress, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency failed to properly evaluate the awardee's proposal under the staffing factor is sustained, where the contemporaneous record contains no evidence that the agency evaluated the awardee's proposal in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest that the agency accepted a proposed technology solution that did not meet the solicitation requirements is dismissed as untimely, where the protester was on notice through a solicitation amendment that the agency was willing to accept the technology solution. DECISION AOC Connect, LLC, a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the award of a fixed-price contract to Qwest Government Services, Inc., d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 030ADV1 8R01 86, issued by the Library of Congress for dense wavelength digital multiplexing (DWDM) fiber services.1 AOC Connect contends that the Library misevaluated CenturyLink's proposal and challenges the best-value tradeoff decision. 1 DWDM is a method of combining multiple circuits into a single optical fiber connection. Comments & Supp. Protest, attach. 1, Expert Report, at 5.

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