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B-419597,B-419597.2 May 24, 2021 1 (2021-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaoltg0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release Matter of: Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS File: B-419597; B-419597.2 Date: May 24, 2021 Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and Zahra S. Abrams, Esq., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester. Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., Evan Sherwood, Esq., Brooke Stanley, Esq., and Anna Menzel, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Verizon Business Network Services LLC, the intervenor. Christian M. Butler, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency found the awardee's proposal eligible for award, notwithstanding the proposal's failure to meet a material solicitation requirement, is denied where the record demonstrates that the allegation is based on an unreasonable interpretation of the solicitation's requirements. 2. Challenge to the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is denied where the record demonstrates the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's requirements. 3. Protest that the agency failed to amend the solicitation to reflect the agency's actual needs is denied where the record demonstrates that the solicitation accurately reflected the agency's requirement. 4. Protest that the agency's best-value tradeoff analysis was unreasonable is denied where the record shows that the analysis was in accordance with stated evaluation criteria and considered all of the advantages and disadvantages associated with the proposals. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS (CenturyLink) protests the issuance of a task order to Verizon Business Network Services LLC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70S0120R00001013, issued by the Department of Homeland

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