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B-417786 1 (2019-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaej0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: JHC Technology, Inc. File: B-417786 Date: October 23, 2019 Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Shane J. McCall, Esq., Robert D. Kampen, Esq., and Gregory P. Weber, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Shaunna Bailey, Esq., and Eliazar M. Chacha, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, for Govplace, the intervenor. John E. Cornell, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Raymond Richards, Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's exchanges during step one of a two-step competition with a vendor that was subsequently eliminated from the competition as unequal discussions is denied because the protester cannot demonstrate any potential competitive prejudice where the agency did not conduct exchanges with the awardee during step one. DECISION JHC Technology, Inc., of Oxon Hill, Maryland, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) under the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) with Govplace, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70SBUR19Q00000040, which was issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for commercial cloud computing services. The protester argues that USCIS conducted unequal discussions and improperly excluded its quotation from the competitive range. We deny the protest.

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