People, Technology and Processes, LLC

B-417273 May 07, 2019 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights People, Technology and Processes, LLC, (PTP) of Tampa, Florida, protests the decision of the Department of the Army to obtain training services for the Special Warfare Education Group (SWEG) at the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, under the Special Operations Forces Requirements, Analysis, Prototyping, Training, Operations, and Rehearsal III (SOF RAPTOR III) single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. PTP, the incumbent contractor, asserts that the proposed task order is beyond the scope of the underlying IDIQ contract. We deny the protest. View Decision Decision Matter of:  People, Technology and Processes, LLC File:  B-417273 Date:  May 7, 2019 Victor L. Buonamia, for the protester. Andrea K. R-Ferruli, Esq., and Matthew Wilson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that a proposed task order for training services is outside of the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract is denied where the scope of the underlying IDIQ contract includes education products and general training support. DECISION People, Technology and Processes, LLC, (PTP) of Tampa, Florida, protests the decision of the Department of the Army to obtain training services for the Special Warfare Education Group (SWEG) at the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, under the Special Operations Forces Requirements, Analysis, Prototyping, Training, Operations, and Rehearsal III (SOF RAPTOR III) single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.  PTP, the incumbent contractor, asserts that the proposed task order is beyond the scope of the underlying IDIQ contract.   We deny the protest. BACKGROUND PTP was the incumbent contractor providing training services for the SWEG’s human dynamics and performance (HDP) program,[1] under a task order issued under a different IDIQ contract administered by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).  Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 1.  On January 30, 2019, USSOCOM informed PTP that it did not intend to exercise an option term under PTP’s existing task order, but instead intended to issue a task order for the HDP program under a different contract vehicle, the SOF RAPTOR III contract.  Protest at 1. The SOF RAPTOR III contract was competitively awarded in 2014 to Raptor Training Services, LLC, and is administered by the Army Contract Command-Orlando.  MOL at 2.  The SOF RAPTOR III contract included a detailed statement of work (SOW) that provided, among other things, a series of “core competencies” that the contractor would be expected to perform.  Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, SOW, at 2.  Relevant to this protest, the SOW indicated that one of the core competencies was “Education and Training Support” and that the contractor would be required to provide “education products and general training support, as required.”  Id. at 5.  The SOW additionally provided specific examples of training activities to be performed: You shall develop and provide training for SOF RAPTOR III Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), system operation and maintenance familiarization training through a combination of classroom, written instructions, and/or hands-on operation; You shall analyze and prepare training courseware, including program of instruction, lesson plans, practical exercises, and a train-the-trainer package to accommodate new equipment training, sustainment training, and training of testers and evaluators. These tasks shall be executed, if and when directed by the SOW of each individual Task Order. Id. The SOW also noted, however, that the requirements were “typically unique and unpredictable,” and that “[t]he SOW identifies the basic parameters and expectations for the management of SOF RAPTOR III,” but “[t]he Government cannot articulate every requirement for Task Orders that have yet to be defined.”  Id.