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B-413104.40 1 (2019-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeabb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Opus Group, LLC File: B-413104.40 Date: October 11, 2019 Stefan Glomazic, Esq., Opus Group, LLC, for the protester. Kevin Misener, Esq., Erin V. Podolny, Esq., and Karyne Akhtar, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's exclusion from the competition for failing to comply with the solicitation's requirements to submit certain financial documents is denied where the record shows that the protester's teaming member submitted documents that were encrypted and did not provide the passwords required to decrypt them. DECISION Opus Group, LLC, of McLean, Virginia, 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, for information technology (IT) solutions and services. Opus argues that NIH unreasonably found its teaming members failed to provide decryption passwords for documents that were required to be submitted by the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on March 14, 2016, for the award of additional indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for NIH's existing Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3, small business governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC), for IT solutions and services. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFP at B-1, M-2; Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The RFP provided that NIH would establish contractor

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