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B-420159,B-420159.2,B-420159.3 Dec 17, 2021 1 (2021-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaomof0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Strategic Operational Solutions, Inc. File: B-420159; B-420159.2; B-420159.3 Date: December 17, 2021 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Laurel Hockey, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., and Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for ValidaTek-CITI, LLC, the intervenor. John E. Cornell, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Strategic Operational Solutions (SOS), Inc., a small service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Sterling, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to ValidaTek- CITI, LLC, a small business of McLean, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, under Request for Proposals (RFP) 70SBUR21 R00000025 issued pursuant to the National Institutes of Health's Chief Information Officer--Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) multiple award indefinite- delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for network engineering and support services. The protester alleges that the awardee's proposal did not address material requirements of the solicitation, and the agency erred in conducting its best-value tradeoff decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 13, 2021, the agency issued the RFP seeking support services for the agency's technical operations center, which operates and maintains agency network infrastructure. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1-2. The solicitation provided for a two-phased evaluation process. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 2, RFP at 57-58. In

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