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B-420095 Oct 06, 2021 1 (2021-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaomgq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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 Decision Matter of: Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS File: B-420095 Date: October 6, 2021 Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., Emily C. Brown, Esq., and Andrew L. Balland, Esq., Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging actions by AgFirst-Farm Credit Bank is dismissed because the procuring entity is not a federal agency as defined by the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and therefore the challenged actions are not matters within GAO's bid protest jurisdiction. DECISION Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS (CenturyLink) protests the issuance of a task order to Granite Telecommunications, LLC under an unnumbered solicitation issued by AgFirst-Farm Credit Bank. The solicitation seeks network/data services and software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services and contemplates issuance of a task order under the General Services Administration's (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.1 CenturyLink contends that AgFirst unreasonably evaluated proposals under the technical and price factors, impermissibly permitted individual credit unions to influence the award decision, conducted inadequate and unequal discussions, and failed to evaluate proposals for compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. We dismiss the protest. AgFirst issued the instant solicitation on January 13, 2021, seeking a contractor to transform AgFirst's network architecture into a provider-managed SD-WAN and to 1 AgFirst is named as an other eligible user of GSA sources of supplies and services in Appendix B of GSA circular OGP 4800.21, dated July 19, 2016.

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