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B-420377 Mar 07, 2022 1 (2022-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaomyd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O 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: Spatial Front, Inc. File: B-420377 Date: March 7, 2022 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., Christopher S. Coleman, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., and Kevin B. Wickliffe, Esq., Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC, for the protester. Ryan Lambrecht, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging solicitation's facility clearance requirement is denied where the record supports the agency's assertion that the requirement is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Spatial Front, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 1331 L521 R1 30S0006, issued by the Department of Commerce (DOC) to obtain enterprise-wide information technology (IT) services.1 The solicitation, issued as a total small business set-aside, contemplates the award of multiple indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts, and requires that each offeror hold a top secret facility clearance (TS-FCL) to be eligible for award. Spatial asserts that the solicitation's 1 The procurement, referred to as the Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services (CATTS), will provide a wide range of IT services for DOC bureaus and offices, and consolidates requirements previously performed under other contracts, including a contract performed by the protester. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 1, 6. The DOC organizations supported by this procurement include the Bureau of Industry and Security; Economic Development Administration; International Trade Administration; Minority Business Development Agency; National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and Office of the Secretary. Id. at 2 n.3.

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