Plateau Software, Inc. (RFQ1531673)

B-420579 Jun 14, 2022 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Plateau Software, Inc., a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, challenges the terms of task order request for proposals (RFP) No. RFQ1531673, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, to provide analytical and technical support for the force safety and occupational health office of the Department of Defense (DOD). The protester argues that the RFP is primarily soliciting an information technology (IT) requirement that is beyond the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. 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: Plateau Software, Inc. File: B-420579 Date: June 14, 2022 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., and Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for the protester. Jeffry O. Young, Esq., Fallyme E. Guerrero, Esq., and James T. Van Biber, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest asserting that task order requirements are beyond the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is denied where the protester has not shown that the principal purpose of the task order is inconsistent with the permitted scope of the underlying contract. DECISION Plateau Software, Inc., a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, challenges the terms of task order request for proposals (RFP) No. RFQ1531673, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, to provide analytical and technical support for the force safety and occupational health office of the Department of Defense (DOD). The protester argues that the RFP is primarily soliciting an information technology (IT) requirement that is beyond the scope of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA issued the task order being challenged here under its “One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services” (OASIS) governmentwide acquisition contract program. The agency designed the OASIS program “to address agencies’ need for a full range of service requirements that integrate multiple professional service disciplines and ancillary services/products with the flexibility for all contract types and pricing at the task order level.” Agency Report (AR), Tab C.1, OASIS unrestricted Pool 1 Contract (OASIS Contract) at § B.1.[1] Under the OASIS program, GSA manages seven separate “pools” of governmentwide, multiple‑award IDIQ task order contracts that “span 29 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes and 6 NAICS Code Exceptions under the economic subsector 541, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services.” Id. This protest concerns the OASIS unrestricted pool 1 contract. The OASIS contract describes its objective as providing agencies with “total integrated solutions for a multitude of professional service-based requirements on a global basis,” and states that these professional service requirements “may call for solutions that cross over multiple disciplines, include ancillary support, and require commercial and/or non-commercial items.” Id. at § C.1. The scope of the OASIS unrestricted pool 1 contract covers a wide range of professional disciplines, including program management, management consulting, scientific, engineering, logistics, and financial services, as well as ancillary support services and products. Id. at § C.2.2. The OASIS contract identifies engineering services as one of its core professional disciplines and lists examples of services areas that are included under the engineering service discipline. Id. at § C.2.2.4. As relevant here, the lengthy list of engineering services specifically includes: data analytics; data management; risk management; system design; system integration; system effectiveness and analysis; operation and maintenance or direct support of an existing major system; technical documentation; and software development for non-IT requirements. Id. Also as relevant here, the OASIS contract defines IT as “any equipment, or interconnected system(s) or subsystem(s) of equipment that is used for the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the agency.” Id. at § C.3.