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B-418649,B-418649.2,B-418649.3 1 (2020-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebjl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G&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: Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS File: B-418649; B-418649.2; B-418649.3 Date: July 14, 2020 Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and Emily C. Brown, Esq., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester. Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Christian N. Curran, Esq., Sean K. Griffin, Esq., and Rina M. Gashaw, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for AT&T Corp.; Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and Robert Starling, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., the intervenors. Jeremiah Kline, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency conducted unequal discussions is denied where the record shows the agency engaged in clarifications, not discussions. 2. Protest that agency deviated from the terms of the solicitation and engaged in disparate treatment in evaluating price quotations by accepting an awardee's allegedly incomplete quotation while finding protester's quotation deficient is denied where the record shows that the agency's decision to accept the awardee's quotation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and the different treatment of the vendors resulted from a difference in the quotations. 3. Protester is not an interested party to otherwise challenge the agency's price evaluation, the best-value tradeoff decision, or the awarded task orders where protester would not be in line for award because the agency reasonably determined that the protester's price quotation was defective and therefore ineligible for award.

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