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B-419167 1 (2020-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecfj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: ITility, LLC File: B-419167 Date: December 23, 2020 Isaias Alba, IV, Esq., Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., Christine C. Fries, Esq., and Jonathan I. Pomerance, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Robert Starling, Esq., and Kevin R. Massoudi, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Enterprise Information Services, LLC, the intervenor. Christine Fontenelle, Esq., and Pavan Mehrotra, Esq., Department of Homeland Security; John W. Klein, Esq., and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that a procuring agency was required to set aside a procurement for small businesses, instead of issuing its requirements as a task order on an unrestricted basis under a multiple-award contract, is denied where the procuring agency used its discretion pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation sections 16.505 and 19.504, as well as 13 C.F.R. § 125.2(e)(6)(ii), not to set aside for small businesses a task order issued under a multiple-award contract. DECISION ITility, LLC, a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Enterprise Information Services, LLC (EIS), of Vienna, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70RDAD20Q00000133, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for program management and information technology support for the DHS Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) Joint Program Management Office (JPMO). ITility alleges that DHS conducted inadequate market research to determine whether the procurement should have been set aside for small business concerns, and otherwise failed to comply with other applicable acquisition planning requirements. We deny the protest.

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