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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: Global Dimensions, LLC
File:     B-419672
Date:     May 12, 2021
Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Brett A. Castellat, Esq., Greenberg Traurig LLP, for
the protester.
Captain Philip L. Aubart, Department of the Army, for the agency.
Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency unreasonably rejected the protester's proposal is denied where
the rejection was consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION
Global Dimensions, LLC (GDL), of Fredericksburg, Virginia, protests the rejection of its
proposal under request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. W911W4-19-R-GTMO III,
issued by the Department of the Army for linguist support services. Global Dimensions
complains that the Army unreasonably rejected its proposal for omitting a nondisclosure
agreement.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On December 20, 2019, the Army issued the RTOP against the Department of Defense
Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise II indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contract to procure linguist support services at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Conformed RTOP at 2, 18; Contracting Officer's
Statement (COS) at 2. The selected contractor would be expected to interpret,
translate, and transcribe information obtained from enemy combatant detainees. RTOP
at 19.
The RTOP contemplated the issuance of a task order to be performed on both
time-and-materials and cost-reimbursable bases over a 1-year base period and four
1-year option periods. RTOP at 3-16. The task order had an estimated value of

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