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B-411204 1 (2015-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadreb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: IT Professionals, Inc. File: B-411204 Date: June 10, 2015 Shyam Pai, IT Professionals, Inc., the protester. Tracey L. Sasser, Esq., and Antonier L. White, Esq., Department of Education, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal as unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with evaluation criteria in solicitation. DECISION IT Professionals, Inc. (ITP), of Ashburn, Virginia, a small business, protests the award of a contract to DigitalSpec, LLC, of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. ED-FSA-14-R-0017, issued by the Department of Education for a wide variety of management support services to assist the Federal Student Aid (FSA) Technology Office in managing the agency's virtual data center, in Washington, D.C. RFP at 6. ITP argues that the agency misevaluated its proposal as unacceptable and thus made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 25, 2014, the agency issued the RFP as a commercial item solicitation, seeking fixed-price proposals to provide services related to six core task areas, and three optional task areas, for a base year and four option years. Agency Report (AR) at 1; RFP at 1, 43-44. The RFP was set aside for competition by firms participating in the Small Business Administration's Section 8(a) Program. RFP at 44-45, 52.

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