Submission of Confidentiality Agreement in Place of Required Teaming Agreement Not a Clerical Error That Can Be Cured with Clarifications; GAO B-414591, Defense Base Services, Inc.

Protest of the agency’s exclusion of a proposal from phase two of a two-phase design-build competition is denied, where the solicitation required offerors to identify a lead design firm and include a copy of a legally binding teaming agreement with that firm, and the protester instead included a confidentiality agreement, and argued that it should have been allowed to correct the error through clarifications.