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B-416752 1 (2018-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Blade Strategies, LLC File: B-416752 Date: September 24, 2018 Mitzi Whittenburg, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., and Anayansi Rodriguez, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Advanced Technology International, the intervenor. Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the terms of a solicitation for the award of an other transaction agreement is dismissed as untimely where the protester did not challenge the agency's use of its other transaction authority prior to the time for receipt of proposals. DECISION Blade Strategies, LLC, of Huntsville, Alabama, a woman-owned small business (WOSB), protests the decision by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, to enter into an other transaction agreement (OTA) with Advanced Technology International (ATI), of Summerville, South Carolina, under the terms of notice for proposals (NFP) No. W31 P4Q-1 7-X-0001, for development of guided missile technology. The protester argues that the NFP improperly provided for the award of an OTA, rather than a procurement contract, and also challenges other terms of the NFP. We dismiss the protest. The Army issued the NFP on April 7, 2018, seeking proposals to provide development and maturation of guided missile technologies, manufacturing and enabling/disruptive technologies, and aviation technologies. NFP at 3. The solicitation anticipated the award of the OTA to a representative of a consortium of industry and academia entities with expertise in the required technologies. Id. The solicitation provides for a 10-year agreement with an estimated value of $2 billion. Id. at 5. The solicitation was issued under the provisions of 10 U.S.C. § 2371b, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army to

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