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B-418402.3 Mar 25, 2021 1 (2021-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaoljq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: National Capitol Contracting, LLC File: B-418402.3 Date: March 25, 2021 Lawrence P. Block, Esq., Elizabeth Leavy, Esq., and William T. Kirkwood, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. Albert B. Krachman, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for York Telecom Corporation, the intervenor. Brandon Dell'Aglio, Esq., Dorothy M. Guy, Esq., Virginia Pizza, Esq., and Deborah Lee, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's award of a contract is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION National Capitol Contracting, LLC (NCC), a small business of McLean, Virginia, protests the award of a contract by the Social Security Administration (SSA), to York Telecom Corporation (Yorktel), of Eatontown, New Jersey, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 28321320R00000009 for video enterprise services integration (VESI) support services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's and the protester's proposals, which resulted in an improper award to the awardee. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND According to the agency, it is progressing towards a virtual environment and intends to use virtual servers to support all or most of its video infrastructure. Agency Report (AR), exh. 2, RFP at 97. To that end, the SSA issued the subject RFP on December 10, 2019, through beta.SAM.gov, as a small business set-aside and in accordance with

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