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B-424251,B-424251.2,B-424251.3 May 28, 2026 Jump To FULL REPORT VIEW DECISION RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a small business of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC, of Greenbelt, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1332KP25Q0010, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for various commercial information technology services. The protester contends that the agency misevaluated the protester's technical and management approach; failed to evaluate a corporate transaction involving the awardee; unreasonably determined that the awardee's quotation was eligible for award in violation of the underlying blanket purchase agreement (BPA) terms; engaged in disparate treatment when the agency only conducted exchanges with the awardee; and conducted a flawed best-value determination. We deny the protest in part, and dismiss it in part. 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: Spatial Front, Inc. File: B-424251; B-424251.2; B-424251.3 Date: May 28, 2026 Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Eric A. Valle, Esq., Abigail H. Finan, Esq., and Kelly A. Kirchgasser, Esq., Piliero Mazza, PLLC, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., Alissandra McCann, Esq., and Thomas Lee, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC, the intervenor. Jeremiah Kline, Esq., Lauren Williams, Esq., and Andrew Parker Frank, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Janis R. Millete, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's various challenges to the agency's evaluation of its technical and management approach are denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable, or where the record shows that even if the agency erred, the protester has not established competitive prejudice. 2. Protest that the agency failed to consider the effect of the corporate transaction involving the acquisition of the awardee is denied where the agency reasonably determined that it did not affect the awardee's quotation. 3. Protest that the agency improperly found awardee's quotation eligible for award under the terms of the blanket purchase agreement is dismissed as untimely where the protester had all the information needed to raise this protest ground more than 10 days before raising it in a supplemental protest. 4. Protest alleging exchanges conducted solely with the awardee were unreasonable and unfair is denied where the exchanges did not amount to discussions and therefore the agency was not required to have exchanges with all vendors. 5. Protest challenging the agency's best-value determination is denied where the record shows the agency reasonably determined that the technical superiority of the awardee's quotation warranted the associated price premium. DECISION Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a small business of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC, of Greenbelt, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1332KP25Q0010, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for various commercial information technology services. The protester contends that the agency misevaluated the protester's technical and management approach; failed to evaluate a corporate transaction involving the awardee; unreasonably determined that the awardee's quotation was eligible for award in violation of the underlying blanket purchase agreement (BPA) terms; engaged in disparate treatment when the agency only conducted exchanges with the awardee; and conducted a flawed best-value determination. We deny the protest in part, and dismiss it in part.[1] BACKGROUND On May 29, 2025, NOAA issued the RFQ as a 100 percent small business set-aside to holders of the NOAA mission information technology services (NMITS) multiple-award BPA pursuant to procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.405-3. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFQ at 2, 4.[2] The RFQ anticipated the issuance of a hybrid fixed-price and time-and-materials (T&M) order for a one-year base period and up to four one-year options. Id. at 16, 111. The agency is seeking a vendor to provide common services supporting the transition of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service's (NESDIS) scientific software and applications portfolio into NOAA's cloud environment. See id. at 87. The RFQ established a two-phase submission process. Across the two phases, the agency would evaluate three non-price factors and price.