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B-419315 1 (2021-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecmt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 Sapproved for public release. Matter of: ERP Services, Inc. File: B-419315 Date: February 24, 2021 David E. Fletcher, Esq., Alexander O. Canizares, Esq., Brenna D. Duncan, Esq., and Paul Korol, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for the protester. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James M. Larkin, Esq., The Larkin Law Group LLP, for Akamai Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Stephan Piel, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency applied unstated evaluation criteria and unreasonably evaluated quotations is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION ERP Services, Inc., of Sterling, Virginia, challenges the award of a contract to Akamai Technologies, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under request for quotations (RFQ) HQ0034-20-R-0264 issued by the Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, for domain name system (DNS) resolver services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation of quotations by applying unstated evaluation criteria. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 22, 2020, the agency issued the RFQ as a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services using the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 1-2. The RFQ sought to procure DNS resolver1 services, as well as a 1 A DNS resolver service translates internet domain names (e.g. www.gao.gov) into the numeric internet protocol addresses needed to connect to internet resources, in much (continued...)

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