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B-419643 Jun 14, 2021 1 (2021-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaomch0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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: Converge Networks Corporation File: B-419643 Date: June 14, 2021 Anthony S. Fernandez, Esq., Law Office of Anthony S. Fernandez, LLC, for the protester. Marie Cochran, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's evaluation of a quotation as technically unacceptable after the agency concluded that an assumption in the quotation raised questions about whether the vendor fully understood the scope of the work required is denied where the record shows the agency's evaluation conclusion was reasonable. DECISION Converge Networks Corporation, a small business of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to ITegrity, Inc., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QTCB20Q0031, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for data analytics operations. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its quotation as technically unacceptable, arguing that the agency unreasonably concluded that the quotation did not comply with the solicitation's requirements. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On November 18, 2020, GSA issued the RFQ, known as Enterprise Operations Solutions Support-Business Intelligence (EOSS-BI), under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, Federal Supply Schedules. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ at 1-2.1 The RFQ was issued to vendors holding a contract under 1 All citations to the solicitation are to amendment No. 1, issued on December 8, 2020, hereinafter referred to as the RFQ. AR, Tab 3, RFQ.

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