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B-419315.2,B-419315.3 1 (2021-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecna0001 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 approved for public release. Matter of: Barquin Solutions File: B-419315.2; B-419315.3 Date: January 19, 2021 Frank V. Reilly, Esq., Frank V. Reilly Attorney at Law, 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 the agency unreasonably evaluated quotations is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Barquin Solutions, a small business of Washington, D.C., 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, and also should have referred the company to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for a certificate of competency (COC) review rather than excluding it from the competition. 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

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