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B-419779,B-419779.2 Jul 27, 2021 1 (2021-07-27)

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441 G St. N.W.                                        Comptroller General
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DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                           a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: CSIOS Corporation
File:     B-419779; B-419779.2
Date:     July 27, 2021
Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys-at-Law, for the protester.
Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Kelsey M. Hayes, Esq., Holland
& Knight, LLP, for Bowhead Total Enterprise Solutions, LLC, the intervenor.
Walker D. Moller, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest asserting that task order requirements are beyond the scope of the underlying
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the protester has not
shown that the task order is materially different from what could reasonably be expected
under the original contract.
DECISION
CSIOS Corporation, of Rockville, Maryland, protests the issuance of task order
No. W912HZ-21-F-0082 to Bowhead Total Enterprise Solutions, LLC (BTES), of
Springfield, Virginia, pursuant to indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract
No. W912HZ-20-D-0001. The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
awarded the contract in May 2020 to BTES for various scientific and technical services
for the agency's Engineering Research and Development Center. The protester asserts
that the activities being performed under the task order are beyond the scope of the
IDIQ contract.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The protest concerns the agency's award of an IDIQ contract and subsequent issuance
of a task order to BTES for various scientific and technical services for the agency's
Engineering Research and Development Center, which manages the Department of

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