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B-416863 1 (2018-12-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvkr0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: PTC Inc. File: B-416863 Date: December 20, 2018 Andrew E. Shipley, Esq., and Phillip E. Beshara, Esq., Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, LLP, for the protester. Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Stephen L. Bacon, Esq., Lucas T. Hanback, Esq., and Robert S. Metzger, Esq., Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell, PC, for Siemens Government Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Heather M. Mandelkehr, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Proposed award of a sole-source contract for software license reactivation to the original software developer is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that its large existing inventory of licenses for older versions of the software could be reactivated and standardized to a single version at a significantly lower cost than purchasing new licenses for other similar software, and where the record reflects that this cost differential was not likely to be recovered through competition. DECISION PTC, Inc., of Needham, Massachusetts, challenges a notice of intent to award a sole- source contract to Siemens Government Technologies, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, issued by the Department of the Air Force for product lifecycle management (PLM) software. The protester alleges that the agency's justification and approval (J&A) supporting the proposed sole-source contract is not consistent with the cited regulatory authority, and is based on a flawed cost analysis. We deny the protest.

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