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B-412679,B-412679.2 1 (2016-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Ascella Technologies Inc. File: B-412679; B-412679.2 Date: April 27, 2016 Barry J. Hurewitz, Esq., and Carla Weiss, Esq., WilmerHale LLP, for the protester. Todd R. Overman, Esq., Richard W. Arnholt, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Bass Berry & Sims, PLC, for Summit2Sea Consulting, LLC, an intervenor. Claire Little, Esq., and Terry G. Stenerson, Esq., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency improperly applied an unstated evaluation criterion in evaluating protester's quotation is denied where record shows that agency evaluated quotations reasonably and in a manner consistent with the solicitation's evaluation factors, as well as applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Ascella Technologies, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Summit2Sea Consulting, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, under that firm's Federal Supply Schedule contract under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HR001 1- 15-Q-0009, issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for information technology business support services. Ascella maintains that the agency misevaluated quotations in connection with its issuance of the task order to Summit2Sea. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The RFQ contemplates the issuance, on a best-value basis, of a fixed-price task order to provide the solicited services for a base year and four 1-year option periods. The RFQ advised offerors that the agency would evaluate quotations considering price, as well as the following four non-price factors, listed in

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