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B-412344 1 (2016-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: DigitalSpec, LLC File: B-412344 Date: January 20, 2016 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the intervenor. Austin Fulk, Esq., Office of Personnel Management, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation as technically unacceptable is denied where the quotation failed to meet a material solicitation requirement and was reasonably rejected as unacceptable. DECISION DIGITALSPEC, LLC (DSPEC), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) and issuance of an initial BPA call to GENCO Systems, Inc. (GENCO), of Herndon, Virginia, by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. OPM1515T0006, for independent verification and validation (IV&V) services. DSPEC challenges the agency's technical and past performance evaluations and the award decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 14, 2015, OPM issued the RFQ as a total small business set-aside pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to vendors holding contracts under the General Services Administration's (GSA) multiple award schedules program, for federal supply schedule (FSS) 70, Information Technology Professional Services. RFQ at 3. The solicitation contemplated the establishment of a labor-hour BPA, for a base year and four one-year options. Id. at 61. The RFQ anticipated award on a best-value basis, considering the following evaluation

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