PEAKE

B-417744 Oct 11, 2019 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Incident Communication Solutions, LLC d/b/a PEAKE, a small business of Severna Park, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order under the General Services Administration's Complex Commercial Satellite Communications (CS3) government-wide acquisition indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, Inc., by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 340596 for commercial satellite communications support for the United States Army's Wideband Enterprise Satellite System. The protester alleges, among other things, that the agency erred in finding its proposal technically unacceptable, failed to conduct meaningful discussions, and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. View Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of:  PEAKE File:  B-417744 Date:  October 11, 2019 Richard J. Conway, Esq., and Michael Slattery, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Amy O’Sullivan, Esq., Gabrielle Trujillo, Esq., and Olivia Lynch, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the intervenor. Colleen A. Eagan, Esq., Nati Silva, Esq., and Vera A. Strebel, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1.  Protest challenging agency’s rejection of proposal that contained clerical errors in a spreadsheet is denied when the proposal as submitted did not clearly demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the solicitation. 2.  Protest challenging the conduct of discussions is denied because the agency repeatedly led the protester into areas of its proposal that required amplification or revision. 3.  Protest challenging agency’s rejection of proposal for failing to include a map with the firm’s final proposal revision is denied, notwithstanding that the protester had previously submitted a version of the map in a prior proposal submission during discussions, when the solicitation specifically required the submission of a map and the agency advised offerors that it would only consider information submitted in the final proposal revisions. DECISION Incident Communication Solutions, LLC d/b/a PEAKE, a small business of Severna Park, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order under the General Services Administration’s Complex Commercial Satellite Communications (CS3) government-wide acquisition indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, Inc., by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. 340596 for commercial satellite communications support for the United States Army’s Wideband Enterprise Satellite System.  The protester alleges, among other things, that the agency erred in finding its proposal technically unacceptable, failed to conduct meaningful discussions, and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on November 27, 2018, to all CS3 contract holders.  Contracting Officer’s Statement of Facts and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 6.  The RFP contemplated award of a single fixed-price task order on the basis of a best-value tradeoff between technical approach and price, with technical approach being more important than price.  Id.