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B-421470,B-421470.2,B-421470.3 May 24, 2023 1 (2023-05-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaoosr0001 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 version has been approved for public release. Matter of: A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC File: B-421470; B-421470.2; B-421470.3 Date: May 24, 2023 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., Potomac Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. John W. Cox, Esq., and Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that task order for staffing support services is out of scope of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the underlying contract provides for a wide range of services and the scope of work is not limited to the particular labor categories identified as examples in the underlying contract. DECISION A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC (APRA), an 8(a) certified, woman-owned small business located in Washington, DC, protests the decision by the Department of State (DOS) to issue task order No. 19AQMM23F0657 to Cherokee Nation System Solutions, LLC (CNSS), a tribal 8(a) certified small business, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.1 The task order was issued under CNSS's indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract No. 19AQMM20D0126 to provide continuing staffing support services. APRA alleges that the task order is outside the scope of the underlying IDIQ contract and that the task order was issued as an attempt to circumvent the automatic stay of performance that was triggered by a prior APRA protest, B-421248.3.2 1 CNSS is part of Cherokee Federal, a team of tribally-owned companies that serve federal agencies globally and support the Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the United States. Agency Report (AR) Exh. 8, CNSS Proposal at 4. 2 Under the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) of 1984, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3557, if the procuring agency receives notice of a protest filed at this Office within 10 calendar days of the contract award, or 5 calendar days after the debriefing date, the agency generally is required to suspend contract performance while the protest is pending

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