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B-418405,B-418405.2,B-418405.3,B-418405.4 1 (2020-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaye0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 version has been 1approved for public release. Matter of: Information Innovators, Inc.; NARTech Inc.; 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. File: B-418405; B-418405.2; B-418405.3; B-418405.4 Date: April 14, 2020 Lawrence P. Block, Esq., Elizabeth G. Leavy, Esq., and William T. Kirkwood, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for Information Innovators, Inc.; William Weisberg, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for NARTech, Inc.; and Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., John O'Brien, Esq., and David Cohen, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., the protesters. Jackson Reams, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protests challenging a solicitation as unduly restrictive of competition are denied where the agency's justification for the restrictive solicitation provision is rational and reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. 2. Protesters are not interested parties to challenge other solicitation provisions or aspects of the procurement where the firms are unable to meet a solicitation requirement. DECISION Information Innovators, Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, NARTech, Inc., of Bethesda, Maryland, and 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. (22nd Century), of McLean, Virginia, protest the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. ID1 1190052, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for information technology (IT) support services. All three protesters assert that the requirement that their current Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts extend through the 10-year performance period of the Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) the RFQ seeks to establish is unduly restrictive of competition. The protesters also challenge various other aspects of the solicitation. We deny the protests.

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