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B-418800,B-418800.2 1 (2020-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebsn0001 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 below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc. File: B-418800; B-418800.2 Date: September 4, 2020 Jeremy W. Dutra, Esq., Karen R. Harbaugh, Esq., and John R. Sharp, Esq., Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, for the protester. Alan Grayson, Esq., for Paragon-One Group, LLC, the intervenor. Bruce T. McCarty, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., of Vienna, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Paragon-One Group, LLC, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SP7000-19-R-1 002, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for managed print services (MPS) software, training, and maintenance. The protester contends that Paragon-One's proposed software solution does not meet all of the technical requirements of the statement of work (SOW), and should have been rejected as unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on August 12, 2019, using the commercial item procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 in conjunction with the negotiated contracting procedures of FAR part 15. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFP at 1. The RFP contemplated award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with an ordering period of up to three years, against which fixed-price orders will be issued. Id. at 3. The maximum program ceiling is 50,000 licenses or a maximum contract value of

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