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B-418676 1 (2020-07-28)

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GO 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
                                          1been approved for public release.


Matter of:   C3.ai, Inc.

File:        B-418676

Date:        July 28, 2020

Joseph D. West, Esq., Lindsay M. Paulin, Esq., and Crystal L. Weeks, Esq., Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher LLP, for the protester.
Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems
Agency, for the agency.
Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that the agency improperly consolidated commercial and non-commercial
items in a single task order procurement, and should instead have obtained the
commercial items in separate procurements using the commercial items procedures of
Federal Acquisition Regulation part 12, is denied, where the agency had a reasonable
basis for the selected procurement structure.

2. Protest that task order proposal request exceeds the scope of the underlying
multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the record
shows the services sought were reasonably encompassed within the contract's scope of
work.
DECISION

C3.ai, Inc., of Redwood City, California, protests the terms of request for task order
proposals (RFTOP) No. 832015495,1 which was issued by the Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA), Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), for the creation and
operation of a cloud-based platform where artificial intelligence and machine learning
(AI/ML) software and data will be integrated and housed for the Department of Defense.
The protester asserts that DISA should obtain the products and services as a


1 The program is called the Joint Common Foundation (JCF). Agency Report (AR),
Tab 12, Acquisition Plan at 1.

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