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                    O1O    o     U.S. GOVERNMENT   ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
                                A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work
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:   Anduril Industries, Inc.

File:        B-419420

Date:        February 22, 2021

Tyler Evans, Esq., and Carl Wiersum, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for the protester.
Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Major Alissa J. K. Schrider, and Steven Sollinger,
Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Raymond   Richards, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that task order solicitation for tactical edge node support exceeds the scope
of the underlying multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts is
denied where the record shows that the requirement was reasonably encompassed
within the contract's scope of work.

2. GAO  lacks jurisdiction to consider a protest alleging that the terms of a task order
solicitation are unduly restrictive of competition where the solicitation is issued under
Department  of Defense indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts, and the value of
the proposed task order award is less than $25 million.
DECISION

Anduril Industries, Inc., of Irvine, California, protests the terms of fair opportunity
proposal request (FOPR)  No. FA8612-21-R-0601,  issued by the Department of the Air
Force, for tactical edge node support. The protester argues that the terms of the
solicitation improperly exceed the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, and that the terms are unduly restrictive of
competition.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On  February 28, 2020, the Air Force issued broad agency announcement (BAA)
No. BAA-AFLCMC_CAIO-2020-0001-001 pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) section 6.102(d)(2), other competitive procedures, to select firms for the award of

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