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B-417791, B-417791.3 1 (2019-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaeh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G&O U.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 below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Inserso Corporation File: B-417791, B-417791.3 Date: November 4, 2019 Richard P. Rector, Esq., and Daniel J. Cook, Esq., DLA Piper LLP (US), for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, and Christopher M. Judge, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation for information technology services which provides for award based on a tradeoff between price and past performance does not violate statute which requires agencies of the Department of Defense to avoid using lowest-priced, technically acceptable award process or criteria to the maximum extent practicable. DECISION Inserso Corporation, of Vienna, Virginia, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1369887, issued by the Department of the Air Force for information technology (IT) and cybersecurity services. Inserso asserts that the agency is using lowest-priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) award criteria in violation of section 813(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017, Pub. L. No. 114-328, 130 Stat. 2000, 2270-71 (2016) (codified at 10 U.S.C. § 2305 note), as amended by the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2018, Pub L. No. 115-91, § 822, 131 Stat. 1283, 1465 (2017) (section 813(c)). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on July 9, 2019, to holders of the General Services Administration (GSA) 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) II contracts, which are multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for various information technology services and service-based

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