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B-420431.2 Jan 19, 2022 1 (2022-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaomrc0001 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 Decision Matter of: AIS Engineering, Inc. File: B-420431.2 Date: January 19, 2022 Eric A. Minner for the protester. Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester is not an interested party where it fails to challenge the agency's determination that protester's quotation was technically unacceptable and was therefore ineligible for award. DECISION AIS Engineering, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Artel LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1520419, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for commercial satellite communications bandwidth services for the United States Space Force space test and training range. AIS contends that the agency's evaluation of its quotation and resulting award decision were improper. We dismiss the protest because AIS is not an interested party. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on June 15, 2021, to holders of General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contracts (Information Technology Schedule), pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. Protest exh. B, RFQ amend. 3 at 1. The solicitation contemplated the issuance of a fixed-price task order for a 12-month base period with four 12-month option periods. Id. The RFQ established that task order award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis, based on two evaluation factors: technical/management approach (technical) and price. Id. at 4-6. The technical factor consisted of four equally-weighted subfactors: (1) space segment

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