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B-310611 1 (2008-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavxi0001 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: Merlin International, Inc. File: B-310611 Date: January 2, 2008 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge, for the protester. Allison V. Feierabend, Esq., and Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq. Holland & Knight, for MTM Technologies, Inc., an intervenor. Capt. Joshua Drewitz, Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that successful vendor's encryption software does not meet agency's requirement for compatibility with specified operating systems is denied where vendor's blanket purchase agreement included required vendor certification of compatibility, which satisfied requirement. DECISION Merlin International, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's issuance of a purchase order to MTM Technologies, Inc. under Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) No. FA8771-07-A-0301, for encryption software. Merlin alleges that MTM's software does not meet the agency's requirements, and that the agency improperly failed to permit Merlin to compete for the requirement, instead issuing the purchase order to MTM on a sole-source basis. We deny the protest. The Army reports that the Office of Management and the Budget has directed all federal agencies to encrypt personal identifiable information and agency sensitive but unclassified information on all mobile devices. Agency Report (AR) at 2. Here, pursuant to this directive, the Army sought to procure commercial-off-the-shelf data at rest encryption (DAR) software through the issuance of multiple purchase orders against the Department of Defense (DOD) Enterprise Software Initiative/General Services Administration (GSA) Smart Buy DAR FSS BPA. The Army determined that, in addition to being listed on the Smart Buy BPA, the software must meet six requirements. Justification and Approval, Sept. 28, 2007, at 4-5. As relevant here, the

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