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B-420305.7 Nov 15, 2022 1 (2022-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaonxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Tetra Tech, Inc. File: B-420305.7 Date: November 15, 2022 Robert Nichols, Esq., Michael Bhargava, Esq., and Madison Plummer, Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for the protester. Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Katherine Burrows, Esq., and Lauren Brier, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Credence Management Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. John B. Alumbaugh, Esq., and Eugene J. Benick, Esq., U.S. Agency for International Development, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a task order is void ab initio is denied where the record does not support a finding that the task order issuance was made contrary to statute or regulation due to improper action by the contractor, or that the contractor had direct notice that the procedures followed violated statutory or regulatory requirements. DECISION Tetra Tech, Inc., of Pasadena, California, protests the decision of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to continue performance of a task order by Credence Management Solutions, LLC, of Vienna, Virginia, while the agency implements corrective action in response to a prior protest. The task order, issued pursuant to request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. 7200AA21 R00029, is for onsite, direct advisory and administrative institutional services to USAID's Global Health Bureau. The protester asserts that continued performance under the task order is improper because the task order is void ab initio. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND USAID issued the RFTOP to firms holding the General Services Administration's (GSA's) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) unrestricted pool 1

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