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1O 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
D e cis io n The decision issued on the date below was subject to
D c s o a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: Systems Implementers, Inc.
File: B-418963.4
Date: April 19, 2021
David S. Black, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., Holland &
Knight LLP, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Allison Johnson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for
the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., Emily O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging the adequacy of discussions and limitation of initial proposal
revisions in connection with the agency's ongoing source selection process is dismissed
as premature.
DECISION
Systems Implementers, Inc., a small business of Clearfield, Utah, protests the
Department of the Air Force's implementation of corrective action taken in response to a
prior protest filed in connection with request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8201-20-R-
0005, issued by the agency to obtain enterprise information technology (IT) services.
As part of its corrective action, the agency reopened discussions with offerors. The
protester argues that the agency is conducting discussions in a misleading and not
meaningful manner.
We dismiss the protest as premature.
BACKGROUND
On January 23, 2020, the agency issued the solicitation, seeking proposals for IT
services for its Hill Enterprise Data Center Sustainment, Modernization, and
Consolidation project. Req. for Dismissal, attach. 1, RFP at 1, 7. Specifically, the
solicitation sought the provision of professional subject matter expertise in enterprise
architecture and engineering services[,] including engineering, infrastructure and
architecture design, application modernization and onboarding, consolidation,
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