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B-417240 1 (2019-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzfb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G;A OU.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: Criterion Systems, Inc. File: B-417240 Date: April 16, 2019 David T. Hickey, Esq., William M. Jack, Esq., and Amba M. Datta, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for the protester. Matthew Butsick, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where protester's revised quotation is rejected as late, protest alleging that the agency should have evaluated the protester's initial quotation is denied where the initial quotation did not comply with a material term of the amended solicitation. DECISION Criterion Systems, Inc. (Criterion) protests the rejection of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DE-SOL-001 1276, issued by the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), for cybersecurity operations. Criterion contends that after the agency rejected Criterion's revised quotation as late, the agency improperly failed to evaluate Criterion's initial quotation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ on June 22, 2017, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to three holders of blanket purchase agreements (BPAs).1 Agency 1 The BPAs were established with three companies, including Criterion, in May 2015 under multiple Federal Supply Schedules (FSS), including information technology schedule 70.

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