Among other things, the e-mails included what e'Management describes as ' revised 'risk assessment' portion of NHTSA's technical evaluation.' Id. Specifically, the internal NHTSA correspondence consisted of e-mails by and between NHTSA's CIO and various agency procurement personnel that were dated September 4 and 5, 2008-just days before the agency's award decision. As an attachment to that protest, e-Management submitted what it acknowledged was 'nternal NHTSA correspondence relating to this procurement.' e'Management Protest, Sept. On September 16, 2008, e-Management filed its first protest with this Office, challenging the bases for the agency's decision to award to Centech. On September 11, NHSTA announced that Centech's proposal had been selected for contract award. On or before the Jclosing date, proposals were submitted by e'Management, Centech, and a third offeror the proposals were subsequently evaluated by the agency's evaluation panel. The agency states that NHTSA's chief information officer (CIO), who served as the contracting officer's technical representative (COTR) under the predecessor e-Management contract, was the primary author of the solicitation's statement of work and evaluation factors. e-Management was the incumbent contractor for the competed requirements. The solicitation at issue was published on Jpursuant to the General Services Administration's (GSA) Commerce Information Technology Solutions - Next Generation (COMMITS) government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC). We deny the protests challenging cancellation of the solicitation and dismiss the protest challenging the issuance of an interim task order. Centech also protests NHTSA's issuance of an interim task order to meet the agency's ongoing requirements for IT support while the agency prepares to conduct a new procurement. DTNH22-08-R-00179 to provide systems engineering and information technology (IT) support for various NHTSA programs. of Arlington, Virginia, protest the decision of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Department of Transportation (DOT), to cancel request for proposals (RFP) No. E-Management Consultants, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Centech Group, Inc.

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