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B-418978,B-418978.2 1 (2020-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebyh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.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: Leidos, Inc. File: B-418978; B-418978.2 Date: October 29, 2020 Shelly L. Ewald, Esq., and Emily C. Brown, Esq., Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, for the protester. Captain Philip L. Aubart, Department of the Army, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably rejected the protester's proposal as noncompliant is denied where the record shows that the agency's determination was made in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Leidos, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests its elimination from the competitive range under request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. W50NH9-20-R-CHMT, issued by the Department of the Army for intelligence support services. Leidos alleges that the agency unreasonably determined that its proposal did not comply with the solicitation's requirements. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 7, 2020, the agency issued the RTOP against the Solutions for Intelligence Analysis 3 (SIA-3) multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RTOP, amend. 3, at 3. The agency sought to procure counterintelligence and human intelligence support services. AR, Tab 3a, RTOP, Performance Work Statement (PWS) at 1. The RTOP contemplated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with cost-reimbursable and fixed-price components to be performed over a 1-year base period, and four 1-year option periods. Id. at 2-3; RTOP, amend. 3 at 3. Award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis considering the

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