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B-418073,B-418073.2,B-418073.3 1 (2019-12-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaealj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O 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: Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. File: B-418073; B-418073.2; B-418073.3 Date: December 26, 2019 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Todd M. Garland, Esq., and John S. Pachter, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and Emily C. Brown, Esq., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, the intervenor. William B. Blake, Esq., and Robert D. Banfield, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to the agency's evaluation of assumptions made in the awardee's price proposal is denied because the awardee's assumptions do not take material exception to the solicitation's requirements. 2. Protester's challenges to its own evaluation, the agency's conduct of discussions, and the agency's best-value tradeoff are dismissed because at the time of award the protester's underlying indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract did not include all of the services required by the solicitation. DECISION Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Qwest Government Services, Inc., d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, of Arlington, Virginia, under task order request for proposals (RFP) No. 140D04-19-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for data communications and associated information technology services and equipment. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its own proposals under the technical, past performance, and price factors; the agency's conduct of discussions; the agency's evaluation of assumptions made in one of the awardee's price proposals; and the agency's best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

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