Threat Tec, LLC (W911SO-25-R-A001)

B-424221 Apr 23, 2026 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Threat Tec, LLC, of Hampton, Virginia, protests the award of a sole-source contract to Chitra Productions, L.L.C., a small business of Virginia Beach, Virginia, made by the Department of the Army, the Army Transformation and Training Command (T2COM), for a variety of services to assist T2COM with its mission. Threat Tec asserts that the Army improperly issued this sole-source contract, and violated the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) and failed to investigate this alleged violation. We dismiss the protest. View Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Threat Tec, LLC File: B-424221 Date: April 23, 2026 Michael Gardner, Esq., Jordan N. Malone, Esq., Olivia Bellini, Esq., Shomari B. Wade, Esq., and Eleanor E. Ross, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for the protester. J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., Jacob D. Noe, Esq., Ken M. Hyde, Esq., and Tariq Abdel-Wakil, Esq., Reaves GovCon Group, for Chitra Productions, L.L.C., the intervenor. Robert B. Neill, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Anthony V. Lenze, Carter R. Cassidy, Esq., and Major Joseph A. Seaton, Jr., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christine Martin, Esq., Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency improperly issued a sole-source award to another firm under the Small Business Innovation Research program is dismissed as untimely, and the supplemental protest deriving from this untimely protest is also untimely. 2. Protest that the agency violated the Procurement Integrity Act is dismissed as premature and, in any event, lacks a legally sufficient basis. DECISION Threat Tec, LLC, of Hampton, Virginia, protests the award of a sole-source contract to Chitra Productions, L.L.C., a small business of Virginia Beach, Virginia, made by the Department of the Army, the Army Transformation and Training Command (T2COM), for a variety of services to assist T2COM with its mission. Threat Tec asserts that the Army improperly issued this sole-source contract, and violated the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA)[1] and failed to investigate this alleged violation. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The Army issued request for proposals (RFP) No. W911S025RA001 on January 3, 2025, to obtain intelligence support services to assist the T2COM Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) with T2COM's mission.[2] Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1. T2COM-G2's mission is to understand, visualize, describe, deliver, and assess the operational environment (OE) to reduce risk and prevent surprise. The OE is the aggregate of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the capabilities and decisions of the commander, and encompasses air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains, and other environments and factors. Agency Report (AR), Tab 19, Sole-Source Bridge Contract, Performance Work Statement (PWS) at ¶¶ 1.2, 1.2.1. The RFP provides that the contractor will assist the agency by performing a wide variety of intelligence support services and tasks. Threat Tec-Yorktown JV, LLC, a joint-venture partnership between Threat Tec and Yorktown Systems Group, Inc., is the incumbent contractor for this requirement. COS at 1. Threat Tec-Yorktown JV, LLC, did not submit a proposal for this latest solicitation. Its two members parted ways and separately submitted proposals, each with different joint venture partners. Threat Tec joined with Kinetic Concepts, LLC, and submitted a proposal as a joint-venture partnership called United Defense, LLC. Yorktown entered into a joint venture partnership with Legion Systems, LLC, and submitted a proposal under the joint venture name, Evocati Solutions JV, LLC. COS at 1. On August 27, the Army emailed unsuccessful offerors notice that the apparent awardee was Evocati. COS at 2. On September 19, United filed a protest with our Office, asserting that Yorktown, one of the partners in Evocati, violated the PIA by improperly obtaining Threat Tec's proprietary information, and that the Army failed to adequately investigate this alleged violation. Id. The Army stayed the award of the contract while that protest was pending. While United's protest was pending at our Office, the Army determined that it needed to continue to obtain the required services on a temporary basis and considered several options. COS at 2. The Army considered awarding the bridge contract to Threat Tec-Yorktown JV, LLC, but determined that such an award would be problematic because the companies were engaged in litigation against each other at the time, and according to the joint-venture's SAM.gov registration, the registration was due to expire in February 2026. Id.