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B-415274.3 1 (2018-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduof0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GtO 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: ITility, L.L.C. File: B-415274.3 Date: April 2, 2018 Isaias Cy Alba, IV, Esq., Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., Timothy F. Valley, Esq., and Kathryn M. Kelley, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, 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 raised subsequent to post-award debriefing for procurement to establish blanket purchase agreements against Federal Supply Schedule contracts is untimely where it was filed more than 10 days after the basis of protest was known; since the procurement was not conducted on the basis of competitive proposals, GAO's timeliness rules at 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(2), which apply to protests that challenge a procurement conducted on the basis of competitive proposals under which a debriefing is requested and required, are not applicable. DECISION ITility, L.L.C., a small business located in Herndon, Virginia, protests the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) with five Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract holders' under solicitation No. HC1047-17-R-0018, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for agency program support.2 The protester challenges the agency's technical and price evaluations. 1 The selected firms are: (1) Defense Acquisition Support CTA, of Washington, D.C.; (2) Barbaricum, also of Washington, D.C.; (3) Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., of Tysons, Virginia; (4) Mission Services Inc., of McLean, Virginia; and (5) Zentek Consulting, of Tysons, Virginia. Unsuccessful Offeror Letter (Dec. 20, 2017), at 1. 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 agency viewed it as a request for quotations (RFQ). Sol. at 1, 57; Agency Dismissal Request at 2. For ease (continued...)

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