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B-414890,B-414890.2 1 (2017-10-04)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                                 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                               The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                               a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
Decision                                        approved for public release.


Matter of: IPKeys Technologies, LLC

File:        B-414890; B-414890.2

Date:       October 4, 2017

John E. Jensen, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Travis L. Mullaney, Esq., and
Megahn D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester.
E. Sanderson Hoe, Esq., and Evan R. Sherwood, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for
By Light Professional IT Services, LLC, an intervenor.
Laura J. Barke, Esq., and Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., Defense Information Systems
Agency, for the agency.
Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the
agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment in the evaluation of
proposals is denied where the different evaluation results were reasonably based on
substantive differences between the proposals.
DECISION

IPKeys Technologies, LLC, a small business, of Stafford, Virginia, protests the issuance
of a task order to By Light Professional IT Services, Inc., a small business, of Arlington,
Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. GSMETI00031, which was issued by
the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for engineering, transition,
implementation, and sustainment support for video services.' IPKeys primarily
challenges the agency's evaluation of technical proposals.



1 The RFP was issued as a small business set-aside under DISA's Global Information
Grid Services Management, Engineering, Transition, and Implementation (GSM-ETI)
multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. RFP at 1.

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