IDIQ Precludes Incumbent From Competing for Follow-On When Option is Not Exercised; GAO B-414615, MINACT Inc.

Protester challenging the agency’s exclusion of the protester from a task order competition is denied, where the underlying IDIQ precluded the incumbent contractor from competing for a follow-on award when the agency declined to exercise an option to extend services; and protest that the task order is outside the scope of the IDIQ is dismissed as untimely, because it was filed after the deadline for receipt of proposals; and protest that the agency intends to issue a future solicitation as a small business set-aside to preclude the protester, which is a large business, from competing, is dismissed as premature because the solicitation has not been issued.