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                   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:   Foxhole Technology, LLC

File:        B-420718

Date:       July 29, 2022

Brian Bunting, Esq., J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., and Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., Wiley Rein
LLP, for the protester.
William T. Welch, Esq., J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and Lewis Rhodes, Esq., McMahon,
Welch and Learned, PLLC, for AmVet Technologies, LLC, the intervenor.
Kevin R. Hilferty, Esq., Stephanie B. Young, Esq., Marianna Lvovsky, Esq., and
Stephanie J. Villalta, Esq., , Department of Energy, for the agency.
Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest is dismissed where record shows that the protester is not an interested party to
maintain its protest.
DECISION

Foxhole Technology, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, protests the establishment of a blanket
purchase agreement  (BPA) and the issuance of two task orders to AmVet
Technologies, LLC, of Las Vegas, Nevada, under request for quotations (RFQ) No.
89303021 RIM000005,  issued by the Department of Energy for cybersecurity
assessment  and authorization support services. Foxhole argues that the agency should
have eliminated the AmVet quotation from consideration because the firm did not have
the corporate experience required under the terms of the RFQ.

We  dismiss the protest.

BACKGROUND

Competition for this requirement was confined to federal supply schedule (FSS) vendors
holding appropriate FSS schedules, and the RFQ contemplates the establishment of a
master BPA, along with the issuance of two initial task orders for the solicited services,
for a base year and four 1-year options. The RFQ advised that the successful firm
would be determined using best-value tradeoff source selection procedures. The initial

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