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B-415274.2 1 (2018-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduoe0001 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Competitive Range Solutions, LLC File: B-415274.2 Date: April 4, 2018 Robert E. Korroch, Esq., William A. Wozniak, Esq., and Shayn A. Fernandez, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. Sarah L. Carroll, 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 Protest arguing that agency improperly waived a material solicitation requirement is dismissed as untimely where agency's interpretation of the requirement, while inconsistent with the protester's interpretation, was reasonable, and any ambiguity as to the intended meaning was patent, and thus should have been protested prior to the solicitation's closing date. DECISION Competitive Range Solutions, LLC (CRS), a small business located in O'Fallon, Illinois, protests the establishment of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Defense Acquisition Support CTA (DAS), of Washington, D.C.,1 under solicitation No. HC1047-17-R-0018, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for agency program support.2 CRS 1 In addition to the BPA with DAS, the agency established BPAs with the following four FSS contract holders: (1) Barbaricum, also of Washington, D.C.; (2) Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., of Tysons, Virginia; (3) Mission Services Inc., of McLean, Virginia; and (4) Zentek Consulting, of Tysons, Virginia. Unsuccessful Offeror Letter (Dec. 20, 2017), at 1. CRS does not protest the BPAs established with the latter four firms. 2 Although the solicitation was termed a request for proposals (RFP) in block 14 of Standard Form 1449, it elsewhere referred to quotes, and the contracting officer states (continued...)

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