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B-405203 1 (2011-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadogs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .L SG AO Comptroller General f.Accountabity * 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. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Enterprise Solutions Realized, Inc. File: B-405203 Date: September 22, 2011 Lawrence P. Block, Esq., Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, for the protester. Lisa J. Obayashi, Esq., Patent and Trademark Office, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of the exclusion of the protester's proposal from the competitive range is denied, where the agency reasonably found that the protester's proposal was not among the highest-rated offers. DECISION Enterprise Solutions Realized, Inc. (ESR), of Marriottsville, Maryland, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DOC52PAPT-10-00022, issued by the Department of Commerce, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), for software development and integration services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside, provided for the award of multiple labor-hour contracts for various software development and integration services. A detailed statement of work was provided that described the scope of the requirement to be performed. See RFP amend. 2, § C. As relevant here, RFP § C. 12, Scope of Requirements, described the activities the contractor would perform with respect to program management, system and software development, services related to new and existing systems, architecture and design, coding, unit and integration testing, configuration and release management, testing support and bug triage, and production support. Id. § C. 12. For

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