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B-415994,B-415994.2 1 (2018-05-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduqq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: Alliant Solutions, LLC File: B-415994; B-415994.2 Date: May 14, 2018 Lee P. Curtis, Esq., Seth H. Locke, Esq., and Andrew J. Victor, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for the protester. James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Roberts PLLC, Smartronix, Inc., for the intervenor. Kelli Cochran-Seabrook, Esq., General Services Administration, 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 1. Protest is timely in the absence of evidence that the protester knew or should have known of the protest basis more than 10 days before the protest was filed. 2. Protest challenging the issuance of a letter of technical direction is sustained, where the letter directs the contractor to perform work that is out of scope of the underlying task order. DECISION Alliant Solutions, LLC1 (Alliant), of Reston, Virginia, protests, as an improper modification, the assignment of work to Smartronix, Inc. (Smartronix), of Hollywood, Maryland, using technical direction letter (TDL) No. 2018-53, on a task order issued to Smartronix by the General Services Administration (GSA) for the benefit of the Navy under GSA's Alliant Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). The protester argues that the TDL work falls outside of the scope of Smartronix's task order and that, 1 Alliant is a joint venture originally formed by seven members, including Sabre Systems, Inc. (Sabre), of Warrington, Pennsylvania. Protester Ltr. to GAO, Mar. 20, 2018, Exh. 1, Alliant Joint Venture & Operating Agreement, at 1. The members may cooperate with or compete against one another within the joint venture for the right to submit a quotation through Alliant. Id., Exh. B, Division of Work.

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