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![handle is hein.gao/gaombs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work
441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548 of the United States
Decision
Matter of: Done By Native, LLC
File: B-419844
Date: August 19, 2021
Louay Azar for the protester.
Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency.
Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging rejection of protester's quotation is denied in part where the
rejection was based on the agency's reasonable interpretation of the solicitation's
pricing terms and dismissed in part because any ambiguity with respect to those terms
was patent not latent, and as a result, any challenge to those terms at this juncture is
untimely.
DECISION
Done by Native, LLC (DBN), a small business located in Clovis, New Mexico, protests
the award of a contract to Al-Baher Arabic Language Center, located in Amman,
Jordan, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19J01021Q0032, issued by the
Department of State for Arabic language training for the U.S. Embassy in Amman,
Jordan. The protester argues that its quotation was improperly rejected for
noncompliance with the solicitation's pricing terms.
We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.
BACKGROUND
On March 9, 2021, the agency issued the solicitation, which anticipates the award of an
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for Arabic language training for staff and
qualifying family members at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan. The RFQ stated
that [c]lasses [were] to be given at a firm fixed price per session, and included the
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