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 G             A   O                                                  Comptroller General
       Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                       of the United States
 United States Government Accountability Office
 Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: MindPoint Group, LLC

          File:       B-409562

          Date:       May 8, 2014

          Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and
          Peter B. Ford, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester.
          William A. Roberts, III, Esq., Gary S. Ward, Esq., and Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq.,
          Wiley Rein LLP, for Management Technology, Inc., the intervenor.
          John R. Caterini, Esq., Kristen E. Bucher, Esq., and Barry C. Hansen, Esq.,
          Department of Justice; Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration,
          for the agencies.
          Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Whenever an agency reasonably determines that an offeror's proposal has taken
          exception to a limitation on subcontracting requirement, that proposal is
          unacceptable and, where there is another acceptable offer, that offeror is not an
          interested party to challenge the award determination.
          DECISION

          MindPoint Group, LLC, of Springfield, Virginia, protests the Department of Justice's
          (DOJ) award of a contract to Management Technology, Inc. (MTI), of Oxon Hill,
          Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DJJI-13-RFP-0819, for
          information technology infrastructure support. MindPoint asserts that the agency
          improperly evaluated price, misevaluated the awardee's technical proposal, and
          failed to conduct a best-value trade-off.

          We dismiss the protest on the grounds that MindPoint is not an interested party to
          challenge MTI's award.

          The solicitation, set aside for economically-disadvantaged, women-owned small
          business (EDWOSB) concerns, sought proposals for the award of a fixed-price,
          time and materials, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity type contract, with a 1-year
          base period and four 1-year options. RFP at 1, 23, & 58. Award was to be made

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