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B-410572,B-410572.2 1 (2015-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqxe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office W ashington, DC 20548 D--------- DOC UM-N --T FOi--R P UBL-C --R-L-EASE ...... The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision .. ooooos D e c is io n :L ---- ~~~~~~~~~~approved for publicir-ele-ase.---------------------------- Matter of: Open System Science of Virginia, Inc. File: B-410572; B-410572.2 Date: January 14, 2015 James K. Kearney, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, for the protester. Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for Foxhole Technology, Inc., the intervenor. M. Katherine Stroker, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, 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 that solicitation included a latent ambiguity is denied where protester's reading of the solicitation is not reasonable. 2. Challenge to agency's evaluation of protester's quote is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation factors. DECISION Open System Science of Virginia, Inc. (OSS), of Newington, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a task order to Foxhole Technology, Inc. (Foxhole), of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotes (RFQ) No. SOL-CIO-1 3- 000015, issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for information technology (IT) security services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Using the procedures established under Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 8.4, the agency issued the RFQ on December 6, 2013, to twelve small business concerns holding contracts under the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Schedule 70, Information Technology Equipment, Software, and Services. Contracting Officer Statement (CO Statement) at 1. The RFQ

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