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B-416992 1 (2019-01-17)

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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:   DAI Global, LLC

File:        B-416992

Date:       January 17, 2019

Robert Nichols, Esq., Andrew Victor, Esq., Rebekah Woods, Esq., and Jason C. Lynch,
Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for the protester.
Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and Lauren H. Williams, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Abt
Associates Inc.; James Y, Boland, Esq., and Emily A. Unnasch, Esq., Venable LLP, for
Palladium International, LLC; and Kayleigh Scalzo, Esq., J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Evan
Sherwood, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Management Sciences for Health, Inc.,
intervenors.
John B. Alumbaugh, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the
agency.
Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest alleging that the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity is denied where the
protester's interpretation of the solicitation is not reasonable.
DECISION

DAI Global, LLC, of Bethesda, Maryland, protests its nonselection for award an of
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract under request for proposals (RFP)
No. SOL-7200AA1 8R00008, issued by the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), for health system strengthening services. The protester argues
that the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity that resulted in a disparate evaluation
of proposals.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued on March 29, 2018, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
part 15, contemplated the award of multiple IDIQ contracts to support USAID's Bureau
for Global Health, as well as USAID missions and other bureaus, in planning and

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