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B-400149.3 1 (2008-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadarj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Pond Security Group Italia, JV File: B-400149.3 Date: December 22, 2008 Paul Reinsdorf, Esq., Reinsdorf & Associates, for the protester. William J. Nelson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's nonresponsibility determination is denied where protester failed to meet a definitive responsibility criterion requiring submission of licenses to provide security guard services in the relevant geographical regions. DECISION Pond Security Group Italia, JV, a joint venture, of Vicenza, Italy, protests the nonresponsibility determination of the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912PF-08-R-0015, for security guard services at United States Army Garrison (USAG) locations in Italy. We deny the protest. The agency issued the RFP on April 8, 2008, seeking a contractor to provide security guard services at USAG locations in Vicenza and Livorno, Italy. According to the agency, for purposes of contracting and business practices in Italy, the U.S. government is treated as a commercial enterprise and must ensure that its actions conform to Italian requirements. Contracting Officer's Determination, at 1. Therefore, many of the contracts awarded by the agency in Italy contain unique requirements dictated by the Italian government. In the case of this RFP, offerors were required to submit copies of specific necessary permits, licenses, and certifications. As relevant here, offerors were required to submit prefecture licenses to provide security services. In the case of a joint venture, this requirement was intended to apply to each member of the joint venture.

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