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B-295973 1 (2005-05-11)

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



          Decision


          Matter of: AHNTECH, Inc.

          File:        B-295973

          Date:        May 11, 2005

          Sam Aln for the protester.
          Capt. Geraldine Chanel, Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the
          General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Agency reasonably regarded protester's approach to staffing as a weakness where
          proposal implied that protester intended to do most of its hiring from the incumbent
          workforce, but protester offered no evidence that incumbent employees could be
          expected to accept its offer of employment and protester failed to propose an
          alternative approach to hiring in the event of the unavailability of the incumbent
          employees.

          2. Protest of technical evaluation of proposal is denied where agency offered
          explanation for its findings that was supported by the record, and protester failed to
          offer any meaningful rebuttal.
          DECISION

          AHNTECH, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract to
          MPRI under request for proposals (RFP) No. W27P4C-05-R-X1408, issued by the
          Department of the Army, Joint Contracting Command-Iraq, for maintenance and
          operation of the Army's Butler Range Complex in Iraq. Specifically, the protester
          takes issue with the agency's evaluation of its operations plan as a no-go.

          We deny the protest.

          The solicitation, which was issued on December 13, 2004, sought a contractor to
          operate and maintain both the ranges and the life support area (LSA) of the range
          complex. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base and

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