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B-422536,B-422536.2,B-422536.3 Jul 24, 2024 1 (2024-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqqe0001 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: Legal Interpreting Services, Inc. File: B-422536; B-422536.2; B-422536.3 Date: July 24, 2024 Ryan C. Bradel, Esq., and Brian S. Yu, Esq., Ward & Berry, PLLC, for the protester. Adam L. Hill, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation as unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester's quotation did not satisfy material terms and conditions of the solicitation. DECISION Legal Interpreting Services, Inc. (LIS), a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the firm's exclusion from consideration under Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) request for quotation (RFQ) No. 70CDCR24Q00000001, issued for language services. The protester challenges the agency's determination that its quotation was unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation on March 6, 2024, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to holders of DHS's Language Services II blanket purchase agreement (BPA). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. The agency sought quotations to provide telephonic and on-site oral interpretation, written translation, and transcription through a language phone line that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Id.; Agency Report (AR), Tab 40, RFQ at 1.1 1 References are to the final revised RFQ unless noted otherwise. All citations to the record are to the documents' Adobe PDF pagination.

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