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B-409471.2 1 (2014-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L 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 Decision beenapproved for pubic release. Matter of: ISC International, Ltd. File: B-409471.2 Date: June 20, 2014 Michael J. Gardner, Esq., and Erik M. Ideta, Esq., Troutman Sanders LLP, for the protester. Alexander W. Fichtel, Esq., and Sheryl L. Rakestraw, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that an agency was required to set aside for small businesses a solicitation for the award of a contract for the design, support, and management of the required cloud-based content management system is denied where the agency reasonably determined that there were not two small businesses that could perform all of the requirements. DECISION ISC International, Ltd., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. D1 4PS001 58, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for a cloud-based, Drupal platform as a service web content management system. ISC argues that the solicitation should have been set aside for small businesses. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on January 22, 2014, using commercial item and simplified acquisition procedures contained in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 (commercial items) and 13 (simplified acquisition procedures).1 The solicitation 1 The solicitation was amended a number of times.

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