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B-299557 1 (2007-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaufn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: A-TEK, Inc. File: B-299557 Date: May 3, 2007 Debbie Rieger for the protester. Jonathan R. Celniker, Esq., and Michael J. Ettner, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In procurement that will include cost-reimbursement task orders, agency reasonably rejected protester's proposal for lack of verification of federally audited accounting system as required by the solicitation. DECISION A-TEK, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal as unacceptable, based on a requirement concerning the adequacy of the firm's accounting system, under request for proposals (RFP) No. TQ2006MCB0001, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for information technology (IT) services. A-TEK primarily asserts that the rejection is unreasonable because it furnished sufficient information to satisfy the requirement and, in any event, GSA is responsible for A-TEK's failure to meet the requirement. We deny the protest. The RFP anticipated the award of some 25 to 30 contracts under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) for a broad range of IT services, with a not-to-exceed ceiling of $50 billion. Contractors were to provide all management, supervision, labor, facilities and materials necessary to perform on a task order basis, including cost-reimbursement orders. Awards were to be made on a best value basis, with proposals evaluated under two equally important technical factors--past performance and contract plan-- which, combined, were significantly more important than price. Prior to the