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B-406059.2 1 (2012-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadost0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. File: B-406059.2 Date: March 30, 2012 Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., and Andrew C. Ertley, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester. Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Nicole Y. Beeler, Esq., and John E. Jensen, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the intervenor. Capt. Joon K. Hong, Department of the Army, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Selection of a higher-rated, higher-priced proposal was reasonable where agency found that the awardee's outstanding technical and staffing approach outweighed the protester's lower price. 2. Protest alleging that agency held unequal discussions is denied where the discussions were tailored to address different concerns associated with each firm's proposal. DECISION General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to NCI Information Systems, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, under solicitation No. W91247-11 -ITES-0001, for Network Enterprise Center information technology support services. GDIT maintains that the agency's award decision was not properly documented and fundamentally unreasonable, and that the agency's discussions were unequal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on July 8, 2011 as a task order competition among multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract holders pursuant to Federal

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