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B-419956.8 Oct 01, 2021 1 (2021-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaomgk0001 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 Decision Matter of: Tata America International Corporation File: B-419956.8 Date: October 1, 2021 David T. Hickey, Esq., Amba M. Datta, Esq., and Ken M. Kanzawa, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for the protester. Krystal A. Jordan, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that a solicitation requirement that offerors disclose the identity of contracts and customers to demonstrate corporate experience is unduly restrictive of competition, because the protester contends it cannot disclose those details due to confidentiality agreements with its commercial customers, is denied where the requirement is reasonably related to the agency's need to validate the claimed experience. DECISION Tata America International Corporation (TAIC), of New York, New York, protests the terms of solicitation No. 75N98121 R00001, which was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) governmentwide acquisition contracts (GWACs) for information technology services, known as Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4). The protester argues that the solicitation's corporate experience requirements, which require offerors to identify their customers, are unduly restrictive of competition because certain of the commercial contracts the protester wishes to cite in its proposal contain confidentiality provisions that prohibit disclosure of the information required by the request for proposals (RFP). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND NIH issued the solicitation on May 25, 2021, seeking proposals to provide information technology (IT) solutions and services in the areas of health, biomedical, scientific,

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