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B-421299 Mar 06, 2023 1 (2023-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaooio0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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: ThunderCat Technology, LLC File: B-421299 Date: March 6, 2023 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Mary G. Courtney, Esq., and Annemarie Drazenovich, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to engage in adequate discussions with protester is dismissed where the protest was not timely filed in accordance with our Bid Protest Regulations. DECISION ThunderCat Technology, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, protests the elimination of its quotation from further consideration under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C10B22Q0377, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for provisioning-as-a-service activities to support delivery of VA endpoint devices to various VA locations.1 ThunderCat argues that the agency erred in failing to engage in adequate discussions with it prior to the elimination of its quotation. We dismiss the protest as untimely. BACKGROUND The facts of this case are straightforward and not in dispute. The RFQ contemplates the issuance, on a best-value tradeoff basis, of a task order to provide the solicited services for a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. Firms were advised that quotations would be evaluated considering price and three non-price factors: 1 These activities include project/account management, reporting, continuity of operations planning, receiving endpoint devices, storage, asset tagging, kitting, imaging services, and shipping of endpoint devices.

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