Decision Released: GSA Award for the MA-IDIQ OASIS+ protest denial

File B-421775.14

Digest

Protest challenging exclusion of the protester’s proposal from consideration for the award of one domain number within the scope of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract award is denied where the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

Discussion

Wits argues that the agency’s decision not to include the management and advisory domain in its small business IDIQ contract award was “unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.” Protest at 18. The record shows that Wits included GrammaTech as a subcontractor in its proposal to receive an OASIS+ small business IDIQ contract award, and Wits does not dispute that GrammaTech does not qualify as small under the NAICS codes applicable to the management and advisory domain. However, Wits states that its proposed approach to the management and advisory domain included only itself–not GrammaTech or any subcontractors–to perform the work under that domain. In the protester’s view, “[i]f, as here, an offeror did not propose a teaming subcontractor for a particular domain submission, then only the offeror’s small business status would apply.” Id. at 22. In other words, Wits asserts that it interpreted the solicitation to mean that “the offeror and all subcontractor(s) proposed for a particular domain need to qualify under the size standards for that particular domain” and, therefore, that it was improper for the agency to exclude the protester from consideration for the management and advisory domain because it had not specifically proposed GrammaTech as a subcontractor for the management and advisory …

Decision

Wits Solutions, Inc., of Ashburn, Virginia, protests the General Services Administration’s (GSA) award decision with respect to the proposal it submitted under request for proposals (RFP) No. 47QRCA23R0001. GSA issued the RFP for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ or MA-IDIQ) governmentwide acquisition contracts for a variety of services-based solutions, known as One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+). The protester contends that GSA’s decision to exclude Wits from consideration under one domain number within the scope of an IDIQ contract award was unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.

We deny the protest.

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