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B-422996.2 Jan 13, 2025 1 (2025-01-13)

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                    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 version has been
                                          ---approved for public release.


Matter of:   Metris LLC

File:        B-422996.2

Date:     January 13,   2025

Stanton P. Beck, Esq., and Jonathan Schirmer, Esq., Lane Powell, PC, for the
protester.
Paul Hawkins, Esq., J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Jacob D. Noe, Esq., Reaves GovCon
Group, for MilTrain JV, LLC, the intervenor.
Gabriel D. Soll, Esq., Yvonne T. Baker, Esq., and Sarah S. Jaward, Esq., Department of
Homeland  Security, for the agency.
Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the proposed termination of the contract awarded to the protester
and the protester's elimination from the competition for failing to have an active
registration in the System for Award Management continuously from the submission of
its initial proposal through the time of award is sustained where the agency included the
protester in the competitive range and the protester had a continuously active
registration from the time of final proposal revision through the time of award.
DECISION

Metris, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Chandler, Arizona,
protests the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard's (USCG)
proposed corrective action following a prior protest filed by MilTrain JV, LLC, a veteran-
owned  small business of Orlando, Florida, challenging an award to Metris under request
for proposals (RFP) No. 70ZO2322RFFCT0001 issued   by the USCG  for training,
training analysis services, and instructional design and development. Metris argues that
the agency proposes to improperly terminate the contract awarded to Metris and
exclude it from the competition for having a break in its System for Award Management
(SAM)  registration between the time of initial proposal submission and final proposal
submission.


We  sustain the protest.

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