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B-412746 1 (2016-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsgc0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision _approved_ forpublicrelease Matter of: Palantir USG, Inc. File: B-412746 Date: May 18, 2016 David E. Fletcher, Esq., Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., Erin M. Estevez, Esq., and Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., Cooley LLP, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., and David White, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to implement the statutory and regulatory preference for the acquisition of commercial items, resulting in a solicitation that unduly restricts competition by offerors of commercial items that could partially meet the requirements of the solicitation, is denied where the agency conducted adequate market research into the use of commercial items and had a reasonable basis for its acquisition approach. DECISION Palantir USG, Inc., located in Palo Alto California, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W56KGY-1 6-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, for engineering, manufacturing, and development services in support of the Army's Distributed Common Ground System-Army Increment 2 (DCGS-A2) requirement. Palantir argues that the agency failed to implement the statutory and regulatory preference for the acquisition of commercial items, resulting in a solicitation that unduly restricts competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On December 23, 2015, the agency issued the RFP, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15 procedures. RFP at 1-2. The RFP

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