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B-404954 1 (2011-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadofq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: CASE LLC File: B-404954 Date: July 7, 2011 Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., The Martin Law Firm, PLLC, for the protester. James E. Durkee, Esq., and James W. DeBose, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's elimination of protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied where record shows that agency reasonably found, after engaging in meaningful discussions with protester, that its proposal included several deficiencies that rendered it technically unacceptable. DECISION CASE, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. EGO1 73.00, issued by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) on behalf of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for information technology (IT) support services in support of the integrated information management system. CASE argues that the agency treated offerors disparately, failed to engage in adequate discussions with it and misevaluated its proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued to all contract holders under the General Services Administration's multiple award, alliant small business government-wide contract, contemplates the issuance of a cost reimbursement and labor hours task order for a base year and six 1-year options to perform various IT support services. As originally issued, the RFP required offerors to submit technical and cost proposals by December 3, 2010. Technical proposal were to be limited to 25 pages. Firms were advised that award would be made on a best value basis, considering past performance,

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