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B-418404 1 (2020-04-16)

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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 version has been
                                         1approved for public release.


Matter of:  22nd Century Technologies, Inc.

File:        B-418404

Date:       April 16, 2020

Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., David S. Cohen, Esq., Laurel A. Hockey, Esq., Joshua D.
Schnell, Esq., and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for the protester.
Andriani Buck, Esq., and LaTonya M. McFadden, Esq., Defense Information Systems
Agency, for the agency.
Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging agency's exclusion of protester's proposal from the competition for
failing to meet all solicitation requirements is denied where the record shows that the
agency's decision was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., (22nd Century), of McLean, Virginia, protests the
exclusion of its proposal from the competition conducted under request for proposals
(RFP) No. 621900227, which was issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency
(DISA), to provide various information technology (IT) support services for DISA's
Department of Defense Network (DoDNet) environment. The protester argues that the
agency's exclusion of its proposal as noncompliant with the solicitation requirements
was unreasonable.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On June 21, 2019, DISA issued the RFP to holders of the agency's ENCORE III
multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, pursuant to the

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