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B-422365,B-422365.2,B-422365.3 May 28, 2024 1 (2024-05-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqfa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO. U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                      Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                of the United States
Decision
Matter of: ARiA
File:     B-422365; B-422365.2; B-422365.3
Date:     May 28, 2024
Jason E. Summers for the protester.
Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Peggy L. Gieseking, Esq., Department of the Army, and
Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies.
April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Request that protest be dismissed as outside the Government Accountability Office's
jurisdiction is denied where successful participation in the initial phases of a three-phase
competition was not merely to result in cash prizes, but was also to serve as a
prerequisite to compete for a small business innovation research direct to phase II
contract award.
2. Protest challenging the aforementioned competition is dismissed where the various
allegations are founded on an untimely challenge to the terms of the competition
announcement and where the various additional allegations fail to establish a valid
basis of protest.
DECISION
ARiA, a small business of Madison, Virginia, protests the Department of the Army's
decision not to select its concept white paper pursuant to the Army's xTechScalable
Artificial Intelligence (Al) Competition Announcement for technology solutions. The
competition announcement provided for three rounds of competition that ultimately may
result in a small business innovation research (SBIR) direct to phase II contract award.
The protester raises various challenges to the first round of competition.

We dismiss the protests.

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