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B-415723 1 (2018-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadukm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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: Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. File: B-415723 Date: February 28, 2018 Paul A. Debolt, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., Emily A. Unnasch, Esq., and Jengeih S. Tamba, Esq., Venable, LLP, for the protester. Captain Matthew Wilson and Deborah Muldoon, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging an ambiguity in a solicitation is denied where the protester does not demonstrate that its interpretation of the provision is reasonable. DECISION Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, challenges the elimination of its proposal from competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. W900KK-17-R-0014, issued by the Department of the Army, for training support services. The protester argues that the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity that resulted in the agency's improper exclusion of its proposal from the competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on August 8, 2017, contemplated the award of a single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a 7-year ordering period and maximum contract value of $785,000,000. RFP at 1, 2.1 The purpose of the contract is for the acquisition of services for the Army Intelligence Center of Excellence in support 1 The solicitation was amended four times. Unless otherwise noted, all citations to the solicitation are to the conformed version as provided by the agency.

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