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B-422197.3 Sep 06, 2024 1 (2024-09-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqvp0001 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
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
*  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Decision                           been approved for public release.
Matter of: Competitive Innovations, LLC
File:     B-422197.3
Date:     September 6, 2024
Timothy B. Mills, Esq., Mills Law Group LLP, for the protester.
John R. Prairie, Esq., J. Ryan Frazee, Esq., Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., and
W. Benjamin Phillips, Ill, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for RELI Group, Inc., an intervenor.
Michael Kiffney, Esq., Christian Jordan, Esq., and Christopher J. Curry, Esq.,
Department of Homeland Security, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency properly determined that protester's quotation failed to comply with the
solicitation requirements regarding mapping of labor categories to protester's federal
supply schedule contract and rejected protester's attempt to revise its quotation after
the closing time for submission of quotations had passed.
DECISION
Competitive Innovations, LLC (CI), of Arlington, Virginia, protests the Department of
Homeland Security's rejection of the quotation Cl submitted in response to request for
quotations (RFQ) No. 70T05023Q7500N001 to provide integrated program
management support services (IPMSS). The agency's rejection was based on Cl's
failure to comply with the solicitation requirements regarding mapping of labor
categories to Cl's federal supply schedule (FSS) contract. Cl asserts that the agency
should have considered Cl's post-closing-time modification of its FSS contract. Protest
at 1-2, 19-24.1
We deny the protest.
1 Page number citations in this decision refer to the Adobe PDF page numbers in the
documents submitted.

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