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B-422058.4,B-422058.5 Dec 06, 2024 1 (2024-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaorfj0001 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 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-422058.4 B-422058.5 been approved for public release. Date: December 6, 2024 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Eric A. Valle, Esq., and Kelly A. Kirchgasser, 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 Protest challenging agency's issuance of a task order to a vendor under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is sustained where record shows the agency unreasonably determined the solicited services were within the scope of the labor categories quoted by the vendor, and improperly overlooked the quotation's failure to comply with a material solicitation requirement. 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), of Vienna, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1231442300085, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for information technology (IT) services. The protester contends the services required under the RFQ are outside the scope of the labor categories quoted by the awardee. 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 Federal Acquisition Regulation (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. We also use the term labor categories and the acronym LCATs interchangeably herein.

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