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GAOU.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: ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC; Ekagra Partners, LLC

File:     B-418085.4; B-418085.5; B-418085.7

Date:        May 5, 2020

Amy L. O'Sullivan, Esq., Christian N. Curran, Esq., Christopher R. Hebon, Esq., and
Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for ASRC Federal Data Network
Technologies, LLC; Jon D. Levin, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq., and Michael W. Rich,
Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for Ekagra Partners, LLC, the protesters.
Debra J. Talley, Esq., Angela M. Fortier, Esq., and Johnathan P. Summers, Esq.,
Department of the Army, for the agency.
Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protester is an interested party to challenge the terms of a solicitation, where,
although the protester failed to submit a complete proposal in response to the
solicitation, the remedy sought by the protest was an opportunity to compete under a
revised solicitation.

2. Protest that solicitation's requirement for fixed-price services above the current
operations level is insufficiently detailed is sustained where the solicitation failed to
adequately detail the scope and boundaries of such services.
DECISION

ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC, a small business located in McLean,
Virginia, and Ekagra Partners, LLC, a small business located in Leesburg, Virginia,
protest the terms of fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. W31 P4Q-1 9-R-0055,
issued by the Department of the Army for information technology support services for
the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center
(CCDC AvMC). ASRC argues that the solicitation fails to reflect the agency's actual
needs, provides insufficient information for offerors to bid intelligently, and is silent
regarding how the agency will utilize its estimates to evaluate proposals. Ekagra argues
that the solicitation does not include sufficient information for offerors to respond
intelligently, and that the agency's discussions seek unnecessary information and are
based on mechanical evaluations against an undisclosed government estimate. Ekagra

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