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B-419583,B-419583.2 May 21, 2021 1 (2021-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaoluy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 'D U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O( 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: Inmarsat Government, Inc. File: B-419583; B-419583.2 Date: May 21, 2021 Paul R. Hurst, Esq, Caitlin Conroy, Esq., Fred Geldon, Esq., and John William Toth, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for the protester. Anthony J. Balestreri, 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 failed to sufficiently mitigate the competitive harm from the inadvertent release of the protester's incumbent pricing for its non-commercial solution is sustained, where the released pricing was detailed and recent, and the agency's remedial efforts were minimal. 2. Protest that the agency failed to sufficiently mitigate the harm caused by the release of pricing for commercial satellite bandwidth transmission services is denied, as the inadvertently released pricing was limited in scope and not recent. 3. Protest that the agency unreasonably decided not to include past performance as an evaluation factor in the solicitation is denied, where the protester has not shown that the agency's decision was unreasonable. DECISION Inmarsat Government, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HC1 01 3-20-R-0001, which was issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to procure worldwide commercial broadband satellite services for the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command. This procurement is known as the Commercial Satellite Services Contract, or CSSC II, and is a follow-on contract to a similar contract, CSSC I, on which Inmarsat is the incumbent contractor. Inmarsat contends that the agency has failed to remediate the harm resulting from DISA's inadvertent release of Inmarsat's CSSC I pricing in the draft RFP for CSSC II. Inmarsat also asserts that the agency's decision to exclude past performance from the evaluation factors for this solicitation was unreasonable.

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