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B-414354,B-414354.2 1 (2017-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 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 D e c is io n ----- be.e.n..a.p.p.ro.vedforpub.licr.elease.--------- Matter of: Raytheon Company File: B-414354; B-414354.2 Date: May 10, 2017 Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Andrew J. Mohr, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Daniel Strouse, Esq., and Amy J. Spencer, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Systematic, Inc., the intervenor. Kathleen Barksdale, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the award of a sole-source contract is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency reasonably concluded that there was only one responsible source able to meet the agency's requirements. DECISION Raytheon Company, of Sterling, Virginia, protests the award of a sole-source contract to Systematic, Inc., of Centerville, Virginia, which was issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) on behalf of the Department of the Army pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. ID03170011 for a software infrastructure package. The protester contends that the agency's sole-source award lacks a reasonable basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 19, 2016, the GSA issued a request for information (RFI) on the FedBizOpps.gov website announcing the Army's Project Manager Mission Command's (PM MC) interest in procuring a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf/Non-Developmental Item (COTS/NDI) software infrastructure package, which allows for immediate 3rd party development of integrated command post, mounted, and dismounted tactical computing capabilities to meet the Army Acquisition Executive's requirement for establishing a common operating environment (COE). RFI at 1. The RFI requested the submission of

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