The Do-Over Only Had One Name on It

Two of the decisions GAO posted Thursday carry the same docket number.

B-423829 has been open in one form or another since August 2025, and it has produced enough suffixes to fill a line: .2, .3, .5, .7. Two of them landed at once. One protester lost everything it argued, and the other lost everything it argued about its own evaluation and won anyway.

The thing it won on is the thing most capture teams file under unprotestable: the scope of somebody else's corrective action.

The Third Slot Reopened for One Name

USCIS issued RFQ 70SBUR24Q00000106, the RIVER benefits portfolio, on August 5, 2024, against GSA IT professional services contracts as a small business set-aside. Twenty-two vendors quoted phase one.

The RFQ contemplated up to three task orders.

The agency issued three of them on August 13, 2025, to Red Cedar Harmonia, FusionEdge and BridgePhase.

LightFeather IO, which did not get one, protested two days later. USCIS took corrective action, GAO dismissed the protest as academic, and by October 8 the agency had finished its reevaluation and confirmed the same source selection decision.

Then LightFeather told USCIS it intended to file at the Court of Federal Claims, and USCIS took corrective action a second time. This one had teeth: vendors could update corporate experience and price, and the agency would run a new code challenge evaluation.

The do-over produced a different answer. On April 8, 2026, the source selection authority picked BridgePhase and Peregrine and stopped at two (chart below). Red Cedar and FusionEdge, both holding task orders from the previous August, were off the contract.

LightFeather was out as well, and for a reason worth writing down: the SSA recorded that its quotation "was not being considered for award because the firm proposed an unacceptable level of effort for the transition period."