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B-418193.2 1 (2020-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaqt0001 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has now 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Unissant, Inc. File: B-418193.2 Date: January 31, 2020 Christopher R. Shiplett, Esq., Randolph Law, PLLC, and Lanny J. Davis, Esq., David Goldberg & Galper PLLC, for the protester. Pamela R. Waldron, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of an agency's corrective action, which included terminating a task order and reviewing its requirement and acquisition process, is denied where the agency's corrective action was reasonable in light of its failure to adequately document its earlier evaluation and award decision. DECISION Unissant, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), in response to an earlier protest from another offeror challenging the issuance of a task order to Unissant under request for proposals (RFP) No. C57839 for information security services. The protester contends that the agency's corrective action--which included terminating Unissant's task order and reviewing its requirement and acquisition process--is unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 11, 2019, the agency issued the RFP, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation part 16, to holders of NIH information technology acquisition and assessment center Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The RFP sought a contractor to provide information security support services for the agency's chief information officer. Id.

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