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B-410208 1 (2014-11-18)

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'         G    A    O                                                  Comptroller General
r       Accountablity * 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 version has been
          Decisionaproved for public release.



          Matter of:   Federated IT, Inc.

          File:        B-410208

          Date:        November 18, 2014

          David E. Fletcher, Esq., Cooley LLP, for the protester.
          Jerry S. Hiett Sr., Esq., and Robert D. English, Esq., Federal Bureau of
          Investigation, for the agency.
          Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Protest alleging that agency improperly evaluated the protester's price is denied
          where the protester failed to provide all of the pricing information required under the
          solicitation, which was necessary to calculate the price the protester claims it
          intended.

          2. Challenge to the agency's evaluation of the protester's quote is denied where the
          record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
          solicitation's evaluation factors.
          DECISION

          Federated IT, Inc. (Federated), of Washington, D.C., a small business, protests the
          issuance of a task order to Qbase, LLC (Qbase), of Reston, Virginia, under Request
          for Quotes (RFQ) No. ITSCT01 8, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal
          Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for services related to the design, installation, and
          deployment of information technology (IT) cabling infrastructure.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The RFQ, issued on May 1, 2014, to small business concerns holding Information
          Technology Services Contract Blanket Purchase Agreements under the General
          Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70, contemplated the issuance of a task
          order for a 1-year base period with four 1-year options for work to be performed on

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