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B-401997.2 1 (2010-01-28)

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          G    A     O                                                  Comptroller General
KWn ,  Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                          of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office     DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548                                   The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
                                                       GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
                                                       approved for public release.

          Decision

          Matter  of:  Eiden Systems Corporation

          File:        B-401997.2

          Date:        January 28, 2010

          Daniel J. Donohue, Esq., Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, and J. Michael Littlejohn,
          Esq., Akerman Senterfitt LLP, for the protester.
          David S. Black, Esq., Allison V. Feierabend, Esq., and Jacob W. Scott, Esq., Holland &
          Knight, for U.S. Information Technologies Corporation, an intervenor.
          Michael P. Chiffolo, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
          Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the
          General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Protest that vendors in Federal Supply Schedule procurement based their
          quotations on different interpretations of the solicitation requirements regarding key
          personnel is denied where protester fails to demonstrate that it was prejudiced as a
          result of any ambiguity in the solicitation.

          2. Protest challenging evaluation of quotations is denied where record shows that
          agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
          DECISION

          Eiden Systems Corporation of Charlottesville, Virginia protests the issuance of a
          Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) task order to U.S. Information Technologies
          Corporation (USIT) of Chantilly, Virginia under request for quotations (RFQ) No.
          SP4703-09-Q-0032, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Supply
          Center Richmond  (DSCR), to obtain Oracle database and application server
          technical support services. The protester argues that the evaluation of quotations
          and the source selection determination were unreasonable.


We  deny the protest.

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