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B-418676 1 (2020-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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 1been approved for public release. Matter of: C3.ai, Inc. File: B-418676 Date: July 28, 2020 Joseph D. West, Esq., Lindsay M. Paulin, Esq., and Crystal L. Weeks, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, for the protester. Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency improperly consolidated commercial and non-commercial items in a single task order procurement, and should instead have obtained the commercial items in separate procurements using the commercial items procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation part 12, is denied, where the agency had a reasonable basis for the selected procurement structure. 2. Protest that task order proposal request exceeds the scope of the underlying multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the record shows the services sought were reasonably encompassed within the contract's scope of work. DECISION C3.ai, Inc., of Redwood City, California, protests the terms of request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. 832015495,1 which was issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), for the creation and operation of a cloud-based platform where artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) software and data will be integrated and housed for the Department of Defense. The protester asserts that DISA should obtain the products and services as a 1 The program is called the Joint Common Foundation (JCF). Agency Report (AR), Tab 12, Acquisition Plan at 1.

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