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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548 of the United States
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted decision has
been approvedforpublic release.
Matter of: Akima Support Operations, LLC
File: B-415401 ; B-415401.2
Date: October 30, 2017
James C. Fontana, Esq., Jeffry R. Cook, Esq., and L. James D'Agostino, Esq.,
Dempsey Fontana, PLLC, for the protester.
Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., and
Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the intervenor.
Michael J. Farr, Esq., and Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Department of the Air Force, for the
agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protester's assertion that the agency was required, in an unrestricted procurement, to
reject the proposal of any offeror that is not affiliated with the incumbent contractor fails
to provide an adequate basis for protest.
DECISION
Akima Support Operations, LLC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the
Department of the Air Force's award of a contract to Choctaw Defense Services (CDS),
of Midwest City, Oklahoma, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. FA3002-15-R-
0025 to provide base operations support (BOS) services at Laughlin Air Force Base
(AFB), Texas. Akima states that its sister company is the incumbent contractor, and
maintains that the proposal of any offeror not so affiliated with the incumbent should
have been rejected.'
We dismiss the protest.
1 Upon learning that another offeror ([redacted]) had submitted a proposal that was in
line for award ahead of Akima's proposal, Akima filed a supplemental protest asserting
that [redacted]'s proposal should also have been rejected on exactly the same basis
as the alleged basis for rejecting CDS's proposal. Protester's Opposition to Agency
Motion to Dismiss (MTD)/Supplemental Protest, Oct. 16, 2017, at 2.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadtyy0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)