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B-418875.3 1 (2020-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebwu0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Open SAN Consulting, LLC File: B-418875.3 Date: October 6, 2020 Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Robert D. Banfield, Esq., and William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly rejected quotation in an acquisition conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Open SAN Consulting, LLC (OSC), an 8(a) women-owned small business of Atlanta, Georgia, protests the rejection of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 140DO420Q0189, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI), on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for cybersecurity support services in support of HHS's Office of the Chief Information Officer. The protester argues that the agency improperly determined that its quotation was unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 26, 2020, DOI issued the RFQ as a small business set-aside and sought quotations from vendors holding Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts under General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule 70. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFQ at 1. The solicitation, issued under the FSS procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, contemplated the issuance of a time-and- materials task order for cybersecurity support services to be performed over a 1-year

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