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B-420552,B-420552.2,B-420552.3 May 27, 2022 1 (2022-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaonds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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
been approved for public release.
Matter of: Intellectix Corporation
File:     B-420552; B-420552.2; B-420552.3
Date:     May 27, 2022
Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., and Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq.,
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester.
Michael McGill, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Jessica L. Nejberger, Esq., Arnold &
Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for NTT Data Federal Services, Inc., the intervenor.
Kristen B. Hahn, Esq., and Jessica R. Toplin, Esq., Department of Justice, 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
Protester is not an interested party to challenge agency's issuance of a noncompetitive
task order under a Federal Supply Schedule contract where the protester does not hold
the schedule contract under which the order was issued.
DECISION
Intellectix Corporation, a small business of Rockville, Maryland, protests the Department
of Justice's (DOJ) issuance of task order 15JPSS22F00000263, on a sole-source basis,
to NTT Data Federal Services, Inc., for information technology (IT) support services for
DOJ's executive office for immigration review (EOIR). The protester contends the
agency's decision to issue the order, on a noncompetitive basis, was contrary to law
and regulation, and was rooted in bias and bad faith.
We dismiss the protest.
BACKGROUND
On December 22, 2015, DOJ issued a request for quotations (RFQ) seeking contractor
support for the provision of IT support services for EOIR's eWorld requirement, which
was a collection of IT systems related to management of EOIR's immigration court
hearings and cases. The agency conducted the acquisition under the General Service
Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, pursuant to Federal

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