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B-410614.2 1 (2015-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrmb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: Bahrain Telecommunications Company, B.S.C. File: B-410614.2 Date: August 10, 2015 Daniel J. Kelly, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for the protester. Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, L.L.P., for 2Connect W.L.L., the intervenor. James E. Durkee, Esq., and James W. DeBose, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's quotation as technically acceptable, and protester's remaining arguments are dismissed where protester lacks direct economic interest to be an interested party. DECISION Bahrain Telecommunications Company, B.S.C., doing business as Batelco, of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, protests the issuance of a delivery order to 2Connect W.L.L., also of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, under solicitation No. TSR RE20FEB145280 (RFQ), which was issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO), for installation and maintenance of a communications circuit between U.S. military bases in Quatar and Bahrain. The protester contends that the agency erred first in determining that 2Connect's quotation satisfied the terms of the solicitation and, second, in determining that Batelco's quotation was technically unacceptable. The protester also alleges that the agency failed to provide it with meaningful discussions. The protest is denied in part and dismissed in part.