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B-412711 1 (2016-05-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsfi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT-FOR--ULIC-RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision Ofbeen approved for public release. Matter of: MorphoTrust USA, LLC File: B-412711 Date: May 16, 2016 Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., Damien C. Specht, Esq., and R. Locke Bell, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Charles L. Capito, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. Virginia G. Farrier, Esq., Christopher J. Reames, Esq., and Angela M. Varner, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Agency, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is improperly using its other transactions authority--rather than a procurement contract--to enter into agreements with entities to develop innovations for the TSA Pre-® Application Expansion Initiative is denied where TSA has statutory authority to enter into other transactions and the protester has not shown that TSA's use of this authority is inconsistent with TSA's statute. DECISION MorphoTrust USA, LLC, of Washington, District of Columbia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HSTS02-16-R-OIA01 1, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Agency (TSA), for the award of other transaction agreements in support of the TSA Pre-® Application Expansion Initiative.' MorphoTrust argues the solicited services must be acquired using a procurement contract; the protester also alleges that the solicitation is ambiguous and defective in certain regards. We deny the protest. 1 As detailed below, an other transaction agreement is a special type of legal instrument used by federal agencies that possess such authority.

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