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B-419976.2 May 02, 2022 1 (2022-05-02)

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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 version has been
approved for public release.
Matter of: Ironclad Technology Services, LLC
File:     B-419976.2
Date:     May 2, 2022
J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Beth V. McMahon, Esq., Reaves Coley PLLC, for the
protester.
Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and William B O'Reilly, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for
Information Technology Coalition, Inc., the intervenor.
Cassandra A. Maximous, Department of Homeland Security, for the agency.
Michael P. Grogan, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the record
reflects that the decision was reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation,
and adequately documented.
DECISION
Ironclad Technology Services, LLC, a small business of Virginia Beach, Virginia,
protests the issuance of a task order to Information Technology Coalition, Inc. (ITC), a
small business of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ)
No. 70CTD021Q0000091, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for software implementation, configuration, and
maintenance of ICE's virtual information technology application infrastructure. The
protester contends the agency's best-value tradeoff decision was unreasonable and
insufficiently documented.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The agency issued the solicitation on April 19, 2021, pursuant to the procedures of
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to firms holding contracts under the
General Services Administration's Veterans Technology Services 2 indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC). Agency Report

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