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B-412729 1 (2016-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsak0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: VMD Systems Integrators, Inc. File: B-412729 Date: March 14, 2016 Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Kara L. Daniels, Esq., and Nathaniel E. Castellano, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Richard J. McCarthy, Esq., Randall T. Suratt, Esq., and Cody L. Corley, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Joseph G. Billings, Esq., and Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., for MORI Associates, Inc., an intervenor. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Post-award protest challenging exclusion from competitive range, based on information obtained during post-award debriefing, is untimely where protester requested that the debriefing be delayed until after award. DECISION VMD Systems Integrators, Inc. (VMD), of Reston, Virginia, protests its exclusion from the competitive range by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNJ 14498840R for information technology, information management, communications, and multimedia services. VMD argues that its proposal was excluded based on the agency's disparate treatment of competing proposals. We dismiss the protest as untimely. The RFP, issued on March 30, 2015 under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, was set aside for small businesses. The RFP contemplated the award of a single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, to be made on a best-value basis considering the following evaluation factors: mission suitability, past performance, and cost/price. Protest, exh.1, Solicitation at 1. The solicitation stated that the non-cost/price factors, when combined, were more important than

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