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B-417824,B-417824.2 Nov 13, 2019 1 (2019-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaolob0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                       Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                 of the United States
/                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Decision                                The decision issued on the date below was subject to
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: IAP Worldwide Services, Inc.
File:     B-417824; B-417824.2
Date:     November 13, 2019
J. Alex Ward, Esq., Rachael K. Plymale, Esq., and Lauren J. Horneffer, Esq., Morrison
& Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., David S. Black, Esq., and Kelsey M. O'Brien, Esq., Holland
& Knight LLP, for IDS International Government Services LLC, the intervenor.
Lynn A. Marshall, Esq., and William J. Wrabley III, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the assessment of a strength for the awardee's experience
recruiting local Afghan personnel is sustained where the agency failed to document its
basis for concluding that this experience had any bearing on the instant requirement for
cyber-operations support personnel in Indiana.
2. Protest challenging the assessment of a strength for the awardee's proposal not to
subcontract is sustained where the agency failed to adequately explain its basis for
concluding that this approach would benefit the agency.
3. Protest contending that agency unequally evaluated the protester's and awardee's
approaches is denied where the agency reasonably credited the awardee with strengths
based on unique features in its proposal.
DECISION
IAP Worldwide Services, Inc., located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, protests the issuance
of a task order to IDS International Government Services LLC, a small business located
in Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RS3-19-0010, issued by
the Department of the Army for services in support of the Cybertropolis Technology
Environment Platform (CTEP) at the Atterbury-Muscatatuk Center for Complex
Operations (A-MCCO) in Butlerville, Indiana. IAP argues that the agency unreasonably

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