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B-419441.4 Jan 28, 2022 1 (2022-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaomsn0001 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
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                           a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
L been approved for public release.
Matter of: QED Systems, LLC
File:     B-419441.4
Date:     January 28, 2022
Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., and
Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for the protester.
E. Sanderson Hoe, Esq., Andrew R. Guy, Esq., and Anna M. Menzel, Esq., Covington &
Burling LLP, for Envision Innovative Solutions, Inc., the intervenor.
Wade L. Brown, Esq., Michael L. Hoyle, Esq., and Jennifer A. Janulewicz, Esq.,
Department of the Army, for the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging agency's decision not to consider firm's proposal is denied where
the proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's instructions, and the solicitation
permitted the agency to deem non-compliant proposals ineligible for award.
DECISION
QED Systems, LLC, a small business of Aberdeen, Maryland, protests the issuance of a
task order to Envision Innovative Solutions, Inc., a small business of Manasquan, New
Jersey, under task order request for proposals (RFP) No. RS3-19-0042 issued by the
Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for engineering and technical
support services. The protester challenges the agency's decision that the firm's final
revised proposal was incomplete, and, thus, unevaluable and ineligible for award.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On May 19, 2020, the agency issued the RFP, using Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) subpart 16.5 procedures, to small business holders of the agency's Responsive
Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts.

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