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B-413104.30,B-413104.37 1 (2019-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzdz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Chags Health Information Technology, LLC File: B-413104.30; B-413104.37 Date: April 11, 2019 David B. Dixon, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Toghrul Shukurlu, Esq., and Robert C. Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Christine F. Simpson, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably found a protester's proposal unacceptable based on the failure to submit a password prior to the proposal due date to decrypt a required document in the proposal is sustained where the encrypted document related solely to responsibility and where the agency had both the document and the password in its possession prior to evaluating the protester's proposal. DECISION Chags Health Information Technology, LLC (C-HIT), an economically disadvantaged woman-owned and 8(a) small business, of Columbia, Maryland, protests the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), to find its proposal unacceptable in the competition conducted under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2016015, which was issued for information technology solutions and services. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably found the protester failed to timely provide the password to decrypt a required document submitted in its proposal. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND NIH administers a governmentwide multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for information technology supplies and contracts, known as the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP3) Small Business contract. Agency

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