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B-418700 1 (2020-07-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 version has been Decison 1:approved for public release. Matter of: MicroTechnologies, LLC File: B-418700 Date: July 31, 2020 Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Kelli Cochran-Seabrook, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency was required to seek clarification before rejecting the protester's proposal as unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester's proposal was unacceptable and was under no obligation to seek clarification regarding the protester's failure to submit required information. DECISION MicroTechnologies, LLC (MicroTech), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Vienna, Virginia, protests its elimination from the competition conducted by the General Services Administration (GSA), under task order request (TOR) No. 47QFCA20R0018, for planning modernization, operation, and maintenance of information technology (IT) systems and services supporting U.S. Army Pacific Command and its subordinate commands and partners. The protester contends that the agency's decision to eliminate MicroTech from the competition was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on March 9, 2020, pursuant to the procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to SDVOSB firms holding GSA Veterans Technology Services 2 (VETS 2) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity governmentwide acquisition contracts. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS), at 1-2. The TOR contemplated the issuance of a cost-plus-

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