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B-416926,B-416926.2,B-416926.3 1 (2019-01-09)

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GAO 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.


Matter of:   NCI Information Systems, Inc.

File:        B-416926; B-416926.2; B-416926.3

Date:        January 9, 2019

Daniel P. Graham, Esq., Caroline E. Colpoys, Esq., John M. Satira, Esq., and Parker
Hancock, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for the protester.
John Cornell, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency.
Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the
evaluation conclusions were reasonable, consistent with the solicitation, and did not
employ unstated evaluation criteria.
DECISION

NCI Information Systems, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of task orders
to ERPSI, of Gambrills, Maryland; Leidos Innovations Corp., of Rockville, Maryland; and
REI Systems Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), pursuant to
request for proposals (RFP) No. 70SBUR1 8R00000008 for outcome based software
development and operations services. The protester alleges that the agency's
evaluation of NCI's proposal was unreasonable.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On April 4, 2018, USCIS issued the solicitation on an unrestricted basis to firms holding
contracts under DHS's Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions
(EAGLE) II indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract vehicle.
RFP at 1. The RFP contemplated the issuance of up to five task orders, pursuant to the
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, for outcome based
delivery and development operations services. Id. at 100. The RFP anticipated that the
resulting orders would be hybrid fixed-price and time-and-materials task orders with a

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