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B-407332.4,B-407332.7 1 (2014-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability OfficeDOUETFRPBIRLAS Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... Matter of: eAlliant, LLC File: B-407332.4; B-407332.7 Date: December 23, 2014 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., and Mary E. Buxton, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Amy J. Spencer, Esq., and Daniel Strouse, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Systems Integration and Management, Inc., the intervenor. Clea B. Efthimiadis, Esq., and D. Randall Kemplin, Esq., Department of the Navy, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Foster, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the procuring agency improperly awarded a short-term sole-source bridge contract is denied where the record shows that the agency had a reasonable basis for its decision to restrict the procurement to the only source it viewed as able to meet the agency's requirement to ensure uninterrupted services. DECISION eAlliant, LLC, of San Diego, California, protests the award of a sole-source bridge contract (No. N65236-15-C-1 003), for a period of 1 month, followed by up to five 1-month options, to Systems Integration and Management, Inc. (SIM), of Arlington, Virginia, by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Atlantic, for service desk operations support at its New Orleans, Louisiana office. eAlliant argues that the sole-source award of this bridge contract was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Navy currently fulfills its requirement for service desk operations through a contract for business operations administrative support services (BOASS) at its

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