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B-299517 1 (2007-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaufb0001 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. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Sumaria Systems, Inc. File: B-299517; B-299517.2 Date: June 8, 2007 David M. Pronchick, Esq., BlueLaw LLP, and Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., John J. Pavlick, Jr., Esq., and Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Richard W. Gates, Esq., and Lary Mohl, Esq., United States Transportation Command, Department of Defense, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency reasonably evaluated successful vendor's quotation in competition for order under Federal Supply Schedule for information technology services, and where additional past performance information considered by agency supported improvement in successful vendor's evaluation, and agency reasonably took into account both the lower staffing of successful vendor's quotation, and evaluated strengths of protester's quotation, in determining that protester's technical superiority did not overcome successful vendor's lower evaluated cost. DECISION Sumaria Systems, Inc. protests the issuance of a task order to Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) by the Department of Defense, United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), under the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for general purpose commercial information technology equipment, software, and services (Schedule 70), and pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. HTC711-07-Q-0006 for corporate data office engineering and modeling services. Sumaria objects to the evaluation and selection of DRC as the successful vendor on the basis of DRC's lower-priced quotation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, dated November 2, 2006, announced that USTRANSCOM would issue a labor hour task order for an initial base period (the remainder of federal fiscal year

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