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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                   Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                              of the United States


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                                                     DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                                   The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                           a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                                   been approved for public release.
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Matter of:   Missionl st Group, Inc.

File:        B-413028.4

Date:        November 20, 2017

Michael F. Mason, Esq., Stacy M. Hadeka, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq.,
Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester.
Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and JoAnn W. Melesky, Esq., Defense Information Systems
Agency, for the agency.
Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation is dismissed where protester's
allegations are based on unsupported inferences or speculation that do not establish a
valid basis of protest.

2. Protest challenging the agency's pricing model is dismissed as untimely where the
protest concerns the solicitation's price/cost evaluation methodology but the protester
failed to challenge these terms before the solicitation's closing date.
DECISION

Missionlst Group, Inc., a small business located in Princeton, New Jersey, protests the
exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP)
No. HC1028-15-R-0030, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA), for global information technology (IT) services.
The protester argues that the agency failed to conduct a proper cost realism evaluation.

We dismiss the protest.

BACKGROUND

On March 2, 2016, the agency issued the solicitation, referred to as Encore III, which
anticipates the award of two separate suites of multiple indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, one resulting from full-and-open competition, and

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