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B-418767 1 (2020-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisionbeen for release. ben pproved fo public release. -------------------- Matter of: Mission Essential, LLC File: B-418767 Date: August 31, 2020 Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Michael E. Samuels, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Major Abraham L. Young, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen M. Hernandez, Harry M. Parent, Esq., and Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency acted unreasonably by not addressing the mistake in protester's cost/price proposal through a cost realism most probable cost adjustment is denied where agency reasonably determined, as preliminary matter, the proposal as submitted was noncompliant and not subject to a substantive evaluation review. 2. Protest that agency abused its discretion by not engaging in clarifications before rejecting the protester's noncompliant proposal is denied where the agency was under no obligation to engage in clarifications regarding an aspect of the proposal that concerned its eligibility for award. 3. Protest that agency failed to reasonably determine that rejection of protester's noncompliant task order proposal was in the government's interest, as required by the solicitation, is denied where the record reflects the reasonable exercise of agency's discretion. DECISION Mission Essential, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, protests the removal of its proposal from the competition under request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. W91 1 W4-18-R- AFR3, issued by the Department of the Army for linguist services. Mission Essential argues that, for various reasons, it was improper for the Army to reject its proposal based on a clerical error. We deny the protest.

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