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B-413729 1 (2016-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadszx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCU- D-c-MEN -T O -R P R--- PUBLIC RELEASE---------- The decision issued on the date below was subject to Ds a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisionbeen approved for public release. Matter of: Threat Management Group, LLC File: B-413729 Date: December 21, 2016 J. Alex Ward, Esq., R. Locke Bell, Esq., and Damien C. Specht, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Threat Management Group, LLC, the protester. Richard B. Oliver, Esq., Mary E. Buxton, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for R3 Strategic Support Group, Inc., the intervenor. Erika L. Whelan Retta, Esq., and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the protester alleges that the agency issued an out-of- scope task order instead of competing a requirement, and the agency has failed to provide relevant documents addressing the scope of the task order, and where the limited documents available support the conclusion that some of the work is outside the scope of the underlying contract. DECISION Threat Management Group, LLC (TMG), of Ladson, South Carolina, protests the issuance of task order FA4452-13-D-0001 -0076 (TO 76), by the Department of the Air Force, to R3 Strategic Support Group, Inc. (R3), of Coronado, California, for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) support services at the Silver Flag site (Silver Flag), Tyndall Air Force Base (Tyndall), Florida. The protester alleges that training procured under TO 76 falls outside of the scope of R3's underlying indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract and that the Air Force violated the requirement in the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA) for full and open competition when it did not compete the requirement.' See 10 U.S.C. § 2304(a)(1). 1 Our Office has jurisdiction to hear protests challenging the award of a task order (of any value) that increases the scope, period, or maximum value of the contract (continued...)

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