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B-417858.2,B-417858.10 1 (2020-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebya0001 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 Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: RIVA Solutions, Inc. File: B-417858.2; B-417858.10 Date: October 29, 2020 Elizabeth Jochum, Esq., and Zachary Prince, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Ryan Lambrecht, Esq., and Jonathan S. Baker, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation and rejection of quotation as technically unacceptable is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION RIVA Solutions, Inc., a small business located in McLean, Virginia, protests the evaluation of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1354981, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to establish multiple blanket purchase agreements (BPAs), for information technology support services. The protester challenges the evaluation of its quotation, arguing that the agency applied an unstated evaluation criterion in finding the quotation technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 30, 2019, NOAA issued the RFQ under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to vendors holding General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 70 Information Technology contracts. The RFQ was issued as a small business set-aside. The solicitation sought to establish multiple BPAs for a 5-year base period and one 5-year option. Agency Report (AR), Tab 9, RFQ at 3, 12. The

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