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                    Ioo  U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
                    G A O       A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work
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:   Interlmage, Inc.

File:        B-413104.47

Date:     January 21,   2021

Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP, for the protester.
Krystal A. Jordan, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency.
Young  H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging elimination from competition is denied where agency reasonably
found the protester's proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's specific instructions
for providing verification of an adequate cost accounting system from the Defense
Contract Audit Agency.
DECISION

Interlmage, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s exclusion of the protester's proposal from
further consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIHJT2016015, for
information technology (IT) supplies and services. The protester argues that the
agency's exclusion of its proposal was unreasonable because the agency used an
unstated evaluation criterion.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP,  issued on March 14, 2016, contemplated the award of additional
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for NIH's existing Chief
Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 small business governmentwide acquisition

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