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B-408707 1 (2013-11-15)

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          G     A   O                                                  Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                                of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of:  Desktop Alert, Inc.

           File:       B-408707

           Date:       November 15, 2013

           Howard Ryan, Desktop Alert, Inc., for the protester.
           JoAnn Melesky, Esq., Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems
           Agency, for the agency.
           K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General
           Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest challenging solicitation of one month delivery order for renewal of
           brand-name emergency mass notification software system is denied where the
           agency is procuring the services using simplified acquisition procedures and
           has adequately justified the use of its approach under the procedures
           applicable to simplified acquisitions.
           DECISION

           Desktop Alert, Inc., of Chatham, New Jersey, protests the terms of request for
           quotations (RFQ) No. HC1028-13-T-01 63, issued by the Department of
           Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, for AtHoc emergency mass
           notification software to support the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). The
           protester argues that the solicitation's brand-name requirement improperly
           restricts competition.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The agency issued the RFQ on July 31, 2013, as a small business set-aside,
           for the issuance of a one month (August 9 through September 8) fixed-price
           delivery order to renew the AtHoc mass notification software system in order to
           bridge the gap between the expiration of the agency's current AtHoc software

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