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B-420353 Feb 15, 2022 1 (2022-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaondl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Defense Solutions Group, LLC File: B-420353 Date: February 15, 2022 J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Beth V. McMahon, Esq., ReavesColey, PLLC, for the protester. Joseph A. Buitron, Esq., and Michelle L. Sabin, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's exclusion of protester's proposal from competition is dismissed where the protester failed to follow solicitation instructions to submit all administrative requirements in required format, the solicitation clearly advised offerors that failure to follow the instructions would result in elimination, and the protester did not challenge the clearly stated ground rules before the closing date set for receipt of proposals. DECISION Defense Solutions Group, LLC (DSG), a small business located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal for the award of a task order from the competition by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. 832017100, to obtain information technology (IT) support services. The protester asserts that the agency's decision to exclude its proposal from the competition for failing to comply with two solicitation administrative requirements was unreasonable. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND On June 22, 2021, the agency issued the RFP, as a small business set-aside, to firms holding Department of Defense's (DOD's) ENCORE III multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, pursuant to the procedures of

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