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B-420032.2,B-420032.3,B-420032.4,B-420032.5 Feb 24, 2022 1 (2022-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaomvq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GxA O 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: LightBox Parent, LP File: B-420032.2; B-420032.3; B-420032.4; B-420032.5 Date: February 24, 2022 Edward Arnold, Esq., and Bret Marfut, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. William O'Reilly, Esq., and Anuj Vohra, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for CostQuest Associates, Inc., the intervenor. Derek A. Yeo, Esq., Jessica A. Easton, Esq., and Chin Yoo, Esq., Federal Communications Commission, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency failed to consider that data rights offered by the awardee were inconsistent with data rights information contained in the protester's proposal, as well as other information in the awardee's proposal, is denied because the record did not reflect any inconsistencies. 2. Protest alleging that awardee cannot license certain data to the agency because the data is licensed from a third party, and the third party does not itself have the necessary rights to allow the awardee to license the data to the agency is dismissed. These arguments pertain to a dispute between private parties in which the government is not involved. In addition, the ancillary question of whether, as a result of these agreements, the awardee will ultimately be able to furnish the agency with appropriate data rights is a question of contract administration not for our forum. 3. Protest alleging that awardee materially misrepresented terms of license agreements it held with a third party is denied, in part, where the record does not establish that statements in the awardee's proposal were false, and dismissed, in part, to the extent resolving the alleged misrepresentation would require our Office to resolve facially legitimate disputes about differing interpretations of agreements between private parties that our Office does not review.

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