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B-415381,B-415381.2 1 (2018-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadumt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: American Systems Group File: B-415381; B-415381.2 Date: January 4, 2018 Daniel P. Wierzba, Esq., Robert A. Burton, Esq., and Mark R. Troy, Esq., Crowell & Moring, LLP, for the protester. Adam K. Marshall, Esq., and Eric S. Underwood, Esq., Barrow & Grimm, P.C., for Muscogee International LLC, the intervenor. Tudo N. Pham, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that a task order for professional services is outside the scope of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the underlying contract provides for a wide range of services and the scope of work is not limited to the particular skills identified as examples. DECISION ASG Solutions Corporation, of San Diego California, doing business as American Systems Group (ASG), protests the issuance of task order No. SAQMMA1 7F3438 to Muscogee International LLC, an Indian tribe-owned 8(a) small business of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, by the Department of State (DOS) for professional services to support the Department's Office of Political Military-Affairs Bureau. ASG alleges that the task order is beyond the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract and that the agency committed other violations of procurement regulations in issuing the task order. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In September 2016, DOS awarded a single-award IDIQ contract to Muscogee under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Tribal Enterprises 8(a) Business Development program; the award was supported by a Justification for Sole-Source 8(a) Contract

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