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B-297534.4 1 (2006-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: CHE Consulting, Inc. File: B-297534.4 Date: May 17, 2006 Steven E. Kellogg, Esq., The Kellogg Law Firm, PC, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, and Charles W. Steese, Esq., Steese & Evans, P.C. for Storage Technology Corporation, an intervenor. Robert R. Goff, Esq., and James W. DeBose, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency record provides reasonable basis for requirement in solicitation for critical maintenance services that each vendor demonstrate in its quotation how it would obtain support from the original equipment manufacturer in the event that the vendor's remedial maintenance efforts for a malfunctioning unit were not successful within the service standard specified in the solicitation. DECISION CHE Consulting, Inc. protests the terms of a request for quotations' (RFQ) issued by the Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) to several firms holding Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts seeking quotations to perform on-site predictive, remedial and preventive hardware maintenance service for StorageTek equipment 'The RFQ apparently is not identified by number, and is variously identified by the parties as the Level 1 StorageCentric Recompete, or Level 1 StorageCentric Hardware Maintenance, or similar phrasing. The use of the term recompete is an apparent recognition by DISA that, during the course of an earlier series of protests regarding this requirement filed with our Office by Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) challenging the issuance of an order to CHE, DISA voluntarily took corrective action by canceling that order and issuing the revised RFQ, which CHE now challenges.

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