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B-404051 1 (2010-12-27)

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 G              A   O                                                    Comptroller General
        Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                         of the United States
 United States Government Accountability Office   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
 Washington, DC 20548                                 The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                                      a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                                      been approved for public release.
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           Matter of:  M C Dean, Inc.

           File:       B-404051

           Date:       December 27, 2010

           Lawrence M. Prosen, Esq., Andrew N. Cook, Esq., Joel S. Rubenstein, Esq., and
           Kirstin D. Dietel, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for the protester.
           Ryan A. Black, Esq., and Charles E. Williams, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
           agency.
           Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           The exclusion of the protester's proposal from the competitive range was
           reasonable, where the protester's proposal was found to be have two deficiencies
           under the most important technical evaluation factor that rendered the proposal
           unacceptable and the proposal was found to not be among most highly-rated
           proposals, which were all technically acceptable.
           DECISION

           M.C. Dean, Inc., of Sterling, Virginia, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the
           competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912DY-09-R-0014,
           issued by the by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for world-wide
           technical support services pertaining to electronic security systems (ESS) and other
           related systems.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The RFP provided for the award of up to five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity
           contracts, under which task orders would be issued for a 3-year base period and a
           2-year option period. The contractors would provide all design, labor, materials,
           equipment, transportation, supervision, coordination and services required to
           procure and install the ESS system and physical and/or force-protection measures.
           They would also provide all materials and services to procure and install the other

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