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B-418257.4 1 (2019-12-31)

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GAO 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:   Trillion ERP Venture Tech, LLC

File:        B-418257.4

Date:     December 31, 2019

William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Captain Seiji Ohashi, Department of the Air Force, for the
agency.
Young  H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging non-selection to enter into a basic ordering agreement is untimely
where it was filed more than 10 days after the basis of protest was known.
DECISION

Trillion ERP Venture Tech, LLC (Trillion), of Reston, Virginia, protests its non-selection
to enter into a basic ordering agreement (BOA) under request for quotations (RFQ)
No. FA8307-19-R-01  33, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for software
DevSecOps   services.' Trillion argues that the agency failed to provide Trillion a
debriefing and unreasonably excluded Trillion's quotation.

We  dismiss the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFQ,  issued on October 9, 2019 under Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) § 16.703, sought to establish multiple BOAs with qualified vendors interested in
providing software DevSecOps  services for the Air Force. Agency's Request for
Dismissal, attach. 3, RFQ Instructions, at 5-7. The RFQ stated that quotations would be
evaluated under two factors (technical capability and portfolio review), and in order to be


1 Although the solicitation never specifically defines DevSecOps, we understand the
term to represent the phrase, development, security, and operations.

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