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B-421560.4 Aug 14, 2023 1 (2023-08-14)

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                    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:   ManTech  Advanced  Systems  International, Inc.

File:        B-421560.4

Date:     August 14,   2023

Daniel R. Forman, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., William B. O'Reilly, Esq., and Sarah
F. Burgart, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester.
Camille Small-Simon, Esq., and Carlos S. Pedraza, Esq., Department of Justice, for the
agency.
April Y. Shields, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the amended terms of a solicitation, resulting from an agency's
decision to take corrective action in response to earlier protests, is denied where the
agency revised the price realism evaluation criteria and limited revisions to the price
quotations, and the protester has not established that the amended terms of the
solicitation are unreasonable or contrary to applicable procurement law and regulation.
DECISION

ManTech  Advanced  Systems  International, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the terms
of request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-09232022, issued by the Department of
Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for digital and information technology
services. The agency amended  the RFQ  when  it took corrective action following earlier
challenges from multiple protesters, including ManTech, concerning their elimination
from the competition. ManTech now  challenges the agency's amended price realism
methodology  and the agency's decision to limit the scope of quotation revisions.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On August  23, 2022, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, the
agency  issued the RFQ from the General Services Administration (GSA), Multiple
Award  Schedule (MAS)  Special Identification Number (SIN) 54151 S, contract for
information technology professional services. According to the RFQ, the agency seeks

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