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B-422653 Aug 06, 2024 1 (2024-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqqf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Inteliteams, Inc. File: B-422653 Date: August 6, 2024 Jerry R. Mannes II, Inteliteams, Inc., for the protester. James Jurich, Esq., Nicholas M. Bidwell, Esq., Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., and Kevin R. Hilferty, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest contending the agency should not have classified a solicitation fails to state a valid legal or factual basis for protest. DECISION Inteliteams, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Holland, Michigan, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 89303023RET000009, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for intelligence and counterintelligence services. The protester primarily argues that the solicitation should not be classified, asserting that the classified nature of the solicitation makes it unduly restrictive of competition. We dismiss the protest. On June 7, 2024, the protester emailed the DOE to request further information about a classified solicitation, which Inteliteams discovered when it saw the RFP's name on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Acquisition Resource Center's (ARC) website.1 Protest at 5. The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside, had a closing date of June 20, 2024. Id. The protester requested a sanitized, unclassified copy of the RFP; 1 Inteliteams explains that it discovered an already-closed solicitation on the NRO ARC website with the same name as the solicitation at issue here. Protest at 2. The protester asserts that the RFP being protested is an NRO ARC Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) solicitation, and that accessing JWICS requires a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), as JWICS is a secure intranet system that hosts classified information. Id.

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