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B-408384 1 (2013-08-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpta0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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: CenturyLink QGS File: B-408384 Date: August 27, 2013 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., David E. Fletcher, Esq., Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., and Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., Cooley LLP, for the protester. Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and Sheila U. Sears, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the intervenor. Brenda Oswalt, Esq., Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's price evaluation is denied where the evaluation was reasonably based, consistent with the solicitation criteria, and treated the offerors equally. The protester's argument that the agency should have interpreted its pricing notes in a manner that would have resulted in a lower evaluated price has no merit where the protester's notes, in effect, took exception to the requirements of the solicitation. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc., doing business as CenturyLink QGS, of Fairfax, Virginia, protests award of a task order to Level 3 Communications, LLC, of Broomfield, Colorado, under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. USCA- 13-R-0037, issued by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC), for the installation of a secondary wide area network (WAN) to serve as an emergency backup to federal courthouse locations. The protester argues that the agency's price evaluation was unreasonable because it failed to recognize cost savings proposed by CenturyLink, and that the agency treated the offerors unequally in the price evaluation. We deny the protest.

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