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B-411496 1 (2015-05-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrdr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Karthik Consulting, LLC File: B-411496 Date: May 26, 2015 William T. Welch, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. George N. Brezna, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation provides that one of the functions to be performed under task order for administration of student internship programs is distribution of government- funded stipends to the interns, value of the stipends is not considered for purposes of determining whether value of the order exceeds the $10 million threshold for GAO task order protest jurisdiction. DECISION Karthik Consulting, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, protests the evaluation of its proposal and the issuance of a task order to the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), of Washington, DC, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-14-R-3438, issued by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the administration of two ONR student internship programs.' We dismiss the protest because we do not have jurisdiction to consider it. Pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 2304c(e)(1), our Office has jurisdiction to entertain protests in connection with the issuance or proposed issuance of a task or delivery order only if the order has a value in excess of $10,000,000, or it is alleged that the order increases the scope, period, or maximum value of the contract under which the order is placed. Karthik does not argue that the order here exceeds the scope, 1 The solicitation was issued under the agency's Seaport-E multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

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