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G                   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:   Veteran Technology Integrators, LLC

File:        B-415716.3

Date:        June 20, 2018

Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Eric S. Crusius, Esq., and Mitchell A. Bashur, Esq., Holland
& Knight LLP, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Kevin P. Stiens, and Rachell J. Reilly,
Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's exclusion of protester's proposal from the competition
is sustained where the agency's basis for excluding the protester's proposal was
unreasonable.
DECISION

Veteran Technology Integrators, LLC, (VTI) of Arlington, Virginia, protests the decision
by the Department of the Air Force to exclude its proposal from competition under
request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1 000 for information technology (IT)
services.' The protester maintains that the agency unreasonably excluded its proposal
from competition when it had in its possession all of the information necessary to
evaluate VTI's proposal.

We sustain the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, known as the Small Business Enterprise Application Solutions (SBEAS)
solicitation, was issued on September 28, 2017, pursuant to the procedures of Federal


1 VTI is a joint venture between Mainstay Information Solutions and Technatomy
Corporation. Protest at 1.

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