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B-422058.2,B-422058.3 May 21, 2024 1 (2024-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqeh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G* AOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Matter of: Spatial Front, Inc. The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has File: B-422058.2; B-422058.3 been approved for public release. Date: May 21, 2024 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Eric A. Valle, Esq., and Dozier L. Gardner, Jr., Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. David S. Black, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., and John M. McAdams III, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Alpha Omega Integration LLC, the intervenor. Elin Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging the agency failed to reasonably consider whether required services are outside the scope of the federal supply schedule (FSS) labor categories quoted by the awardee is sustained where the agency acknowledges it did not contemporaneously consider if the awardee's quoted FSS labor categories encompassed the services required by the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging evaluation of quotations and comparative tradeoff is denied where the record demonstrates the agency's evaluation and tradeoff were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Spatial Front, Inc. (Spatial Front), of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a federal supply schedule (FSS)1 order to Alpha Omega Integration LLC (Alpha Omega) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1231442300085, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for information technology (IT) services. The 1 The record and the parties' submissions refer to both the FSS and multiple award schedule (MAS) contracts. The acronyms are used synonymously, referring to the government-wide acquisition program administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) pursuant to the regulations of FAR subpart 8.4. While we use the acronym FSS throughout this decision, we have left unchanged the use of the acronym MAS when quoting from party filings or record documents.

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