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B-420002 Sep 29, 2021 1 (2021-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaomgf0001 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 Decision Matter of: First American Business Solutions File: B-420002 Date: September 29, 2021 David Colangelo, First American Business Solutions, for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation of the awardee's offer is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the awardee attested that it had the proper technical certifications, as was required by the solicitation. DECISION First American Business Solutions (First ABS), a small business of New Port Richey, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Cornerstone Communications, Inc., of Fenton, Missouri, under solicitation No. W91 RUS21 R0078, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for support to the telephone switching systems and associated equipment installed at Army installations in Alaska. The protester primarily contends that the agency was unreasonable in finding the awardee's proposal to be technically acceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on May 13, 2021, sought to acquire remote technical assistance and support for the Nortel/Avaya telephone switching systems used by the Army as part of the Defense Switched Network voice switches that provided unclassified voice services to personnel located at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely, Alaska.1 COS/MOL 1 The agency initially posted the solicitation on the Army's Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - 3 Hardware website on April 28, 2021. Contracting Officer Statement and Memorandum

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