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B-406784 1 (2012-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpbf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AlG A O Comptroller General ,!7 = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision be approved for public release. Matter of: Sevatec, Inc. File: B-406784 Date: August 23, 2012 Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., James K. Kearney, Esq., and Steven W. Cave, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, for the protester. John T. Lauro, Esq., and Roland Meisner, Esq., Defense Security Service, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency was not required to attribute the experience of an incumbent firm to the protester where the protester acquired the rights and responsibilities of the incumbent contract under a novation agreement. DECISION Sevatec, Inc., of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competition under task order request for proposals (RFP) No. HS0021 -11 -R- 0133, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Security Services (DSS), for information technology support services. Sevatec primarily challenges the agency's evaluation of its experience. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On October 31, 2011, the agency issued the RFP to vendors holding contracts under the streamlined technology acquisitions resources (STARS) contract, a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract awarded by the General Services Administration to participants in the Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program. The RFP provided for the issuance of a task order, on a fixed-price, level-of-effort basis, for a full range of information technology support services at multiple locations. RFP at 9-10. In this regard, vendors were informed that the agency was consolidating requirements that had previously been

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