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B-413104.25 1 (2019-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvpj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date belowwassubjectto Decision a GAO Protective Order. Thisredacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Graham Technologies, LLC File: B-413104.25 Date: February 25, 2019 Eden Brown Gaines, Esq., Brown Gaines, LLC, for the protester. Christine Simpson, Esq., Department of Health and Humans Services, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging elimination from competition is denied where agency reasonably found the protester's proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's specific instructions for providing verification of an adequate cost accounting system. DECISION Graham Technologies, LLC, an 8(a) small business, of Largo, Maryland, protests the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s exclusion of the protester's proposal from further consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2016015, for information technology (IT) supplies and services. The protester argues that the agency's exclusion of its proposal was unreasonable because it complied with the solicitation's instructions. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, 1 issued on March 14, 2016, contemplated the award of additional indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for NIH's existing Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) small business governmentwide 1 The solicitation was amended four times. All citations to the RFP are to the conformed RFP provided by the agency.

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