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B-419265 1 (2020-11-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecck0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAtOU.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 / 7been approved for public release. Matter of: U.S. Information Technologies Corporation File: B-419265 Date: November 17, 2020 David S. Black, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Hillary J. Freund, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., and Jonathan I. Pomerance, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Credence Management Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Elizabeth Amato, Esq., Gregory Matthews, Michael D. McPeak, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. GAO does not have jurisdiction to hear a protest challenging the issuance of a task order valued below the jurisdictional threshold, based on the additional value of the option to extend services under Federal Acquisition Regulation clause 52.217-8, where the solicitation did not request pricing for the option and the agency did not include the option in the award. 2. Argument that the awardee should have quoted a higher price does not provide a basis to find that the value of the task order was higher than the awarded price. 3. Argument that a task order might have been modified to an amount over the jurisdictional threshold is dismissed where the protester does not establish that the modification in fact took place. DECISION U.S. Information Technologies Corporation (USIT), a small business, of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Credence Management Solutions, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SP4709-20-Q-1022, which was issued for development and sustainment services to support the agency's e-Commerce system. USIT argues that the award to Credence was improper because DLA unreasonably evaluated vendors'

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