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B-413758 1 (2016-12-12)

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A GAO
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


Matter of:

File:

Date:


Comptroller General
of the United States


   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.
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BlueWater Federal Solutions, Inc.

B-413758

December 12, 2016


Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katherine A. Straw, Esq., Montgomery Fazzone PLLC,
for the protester.
Kelli Cochran-Seabrook, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging exclusion from the competition is denied where the agency
reasonably found the protester's total proposed price to be unrealistic in accordance
with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

BlueWater Federal Solutions, Inc. (BlueWater), of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the
exclusion of its proposal from further consideration under task order request (TOR)
number GSC-QFOB-16-32998, issued by the General Services Administration
(GSA), for mission support services for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency
(JIDA).

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

JIDA is the most recent incarnation of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat
Organization (JIEDDO), which was established in 2006 as a Deputy Secretary of
Defense-directed initiative with the mission to rapidly provide solutions to defeat the
enemy's improvised threat campaign and save the lives of service members
deployed fighting insurgent networks that employ improvised threats as a strategic

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