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B-417084 1 (2019-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvof0001 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: Cyberdata Technologies, Inc. File: B-417084 Date: February 6, 2019 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law, for the protester. David B. Dixon, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Robert Starling, Esq., and Toghrul Shukurlu, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Ace Info Solutions, Inc., the intervenor. Florence N. Bridges, Esq., Department of Commerce, 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 Protest that the agency failed to look behind the adjectival ratings in making its selection decision is sustained, where the evaluation record contained no explanation for why the proposals were determined to be technically equal. DECISION CyberData Technologies, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Ace Info Solutions, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. EG-1 33W-1 7-RQ-1 234, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for weather and climate computing infrastructure services. CyberData challenges the evaluation of its proposal and the best-value tradeoff decision. We sustain the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued as an 8(a) small business set-aside on July 11, 2017, to holders of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center Chief Information Officer--Solutions and Partners 3 small business government- wide acquisition contracts. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFQ, at 3. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a task order with fixed-price and time-and-materials

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