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B-421841 Oct 11, 2023 1 (2023-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaopho0001 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: International Business Machines Corporation File: B-421841 Date: October 11, 2023 J. Andrew Jackson, Esq., Ryan P. McGovern, Esq., Robyn B. Celestino, Esq., and Zoe Lensing, Esq. Jones Day, for the protester. Colin L. Nash, Esq., and Peter S. Kozlowski, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the solicitation contains unduly restrictive terms is denied where the record shows that the evaluation criteria are reasonably related to the agency's needs and withstand logical scrutiny. DECISION International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C10B23R0006, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for supply chain modernization services. IBM argues that evaluation criteria assessing offerors' financial liquidity and solvency are unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 29, 2023, the VA issued the RFP to procure supply chain modernization services. Agency Report (AR), Tab 5, RFP at 1, 12. The selected contractor would provide an easy-to-use cloud-based platform to manage the flow of goods, services, and information internally between agency personnel, and externally between agency personnel and customers. Id. at 12, 17. The RFP contemplates the award of a single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to be performed over a 10-year ordering period. RFP at 41. Delivery and task

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