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B-419045.4,B-419045.5,B-419045.6 Jun 02, 2021 1 (2021-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaomaw0001 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-419045.4; B-419045.5; B-419045.6 Date: June 2, 2021 Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., Robert C. Shaia, Esq., and Andrew L. Balland, Esq., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester. Christian Curran, Esq., Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Alexandra Barbee-Garrett, Esq., and Rina M. Gashaw, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for AT&T Corporation, the intervenor. Megan Nathan, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where the agency conducted discussions that reasonably led protester into the area of its proposal requiring amplification, the agency was not required to conduct additional discussions once it determined that the price proposal, as revised, remained unrealistic. 2. Protest challenging the agency's price realism analysis is denied where the record shows that protester failed to clearly identify contract line items subject to zero-dollar pricing. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS (CenturyLink), of Monroe, Louisiana, protest the issuance of a task order to AT&T Corporation (AT&T), of Oakton, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 91990020R0009, issued by the Department of Education for telecommunications, networking, and information technology infrastructure services. CenturyLink challenges the agency's conduct of discussions and evaluation of price. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On January 23, 2020, the Department issued the RFP under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract. Agency Report (AR), Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The EIS is a 15-year multiple

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