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B-299744.2 1 (2007-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaugf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: XTec, Inc. File: B-299744.2; B-299744.3 Date: August 6, 2007 John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Gregory, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Christopher Gagne, Esq., and John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Electronic Data Systems, Inc., an intervenor. Micul E. Thompson, Esq., Carmody A. Gaba, Esq., and Kevin J. Rice, Esq., for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Even assuming that protester's interpretation of solicitation issued under the Federal Supply Schedule program for a contractor managed end-to-end solution meeting government-wide federal identification card requirements is reasonable and required all products and services within a vendor's end-to-end solution to be listed on the agency's Approved Product List at the time price submissions were due, protester failed to establish that it was prejudiced by the agency's alleged waiver of this requirement where the protester's proposal was lower-rated technically and higher priced and the protester only generally asserted that had it known of the agency's interpretation, it could have substituted products and reduced its price. DECISION XTec, Inc. protests the issuance of a task order to Electronic Data Systems, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. TQ-PLB07-0002, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to vendors under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, to provide contractor-managed services for an end-to-end solution meeting government-wide federal identification card requirements. XTec argues that EDS was not eligible for an order because its solution did not meet mandatory solicitation requirements, GSA improperly evaluated EDS's solution under the RFQ's technical criteria, and that GSA's selection of EDS as the best value was flawed. We deny the protest.

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