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B-400623.3 1 (2009-03-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaud0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A G A O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: ACCESS Systems, Inc. File: B-400623.3 Date: March 4, 2009 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Timothy Sullivan, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for the protester. Christopher M. Johnson, Esq., and Brian C. Caney, Esq., Centre Law Group, LLC, for Avineon, Inc., the intervenor. Lisa L. Baker, Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained in a competition for the issuance, on a best-value basis, of a task order to a higher-priced vendor under 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) government-wide acquisition contract, where the record does not show meaningful consideration of price in the agency's selection of the higher-price quotation, nor identify the superior capabilities of the awardee's quotation that would justify paying the price premium associated with that quotation. DECISION Access Systems, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Avineon, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. M67854-08-Q-4969, issued by the U.S. Marine Corps for information technology (IT) services for the Office of the Command Information Officer (OCIO), Marine Corps Systems Command. Access challenges the Marine Corps's technical evaluation, source selection decision, and conduct of discussions. We sustain the protest. The RFQ provides for the issuance of a fixed-price task order under the General Services Administration's 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources