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B-422916 Dec 04, 2024 1 (2024-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaorgg0001 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: J.E. Federal Enterprises, LLC File: B-422916 Date: December 4, 2024 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., Gregory P. Weber, Esq., Stephanie L. Ellis, Esq., and Annie E. Birney, Esq., Koprince, McCall & Pottroff, LLC, for the protester. Nathaniel H. Sears, Esq., and Matthew Vasquez, Esq., Defense Health Agency, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging various terms of a solicitation as overly restrictive, unclear, and unreasonable is denied where the record shows that the terms are reasonably related to the agency's needs and provide offerors with sufficient detail to enable them to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. DECISION J.E. Federal Enterprises, LLC, of Auburn, Alabama, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HT001 124R0073, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, for a clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The protester argues that various terms of the RFP are overly restrictive, unclear, and unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 6, 2024, the agency issued the RFP as a combined synopsis/solicitation pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation parts 12 (acquisition of commercial items) and 15 (negotiated procedures).' Agency Report (AR), Tab 30, RFP SAM.gov Contract 1 The agency amended the RFP four times. All citations are to the Adobe PDF page numbers of the documents referenced in this decision.

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