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B-403209 1 (2010-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbmz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Total Health Resources File: B-403209 Date: October 4, 2010 Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Maj. Heidi L. Osterhout, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation requirement that the prime contractor itself have 2 years of family advocacy program experience is unduly restrictive, where the agency does not show that its needs could not be satisfied by a subcontractor with the requisite experience. DECISION Total Health Resources, of Silver Spring, Maryland, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7014-10-R-0020 issued by the Department of the Air Force for family advocacy program (FAP) services. The solicitation, as amended, requires that the prime contractor itself have 2 years of FAP experience. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued as a commercial item acquisition set aside for section 8(a) small business firms, provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for family and community health services, including education, awareness, identification and treatment of family maltreatment incidents and non-violence advocacy, at 21 Air Force bases across the western and southwestern United States. See Performance Work Statement at 2. Offerors were informed that award would be made on a best value basis, considering technical capability and price. In this regard, the RFP stated that offerors must show 2 years of experience providing FAP services to be technically acceptable. RFP at 51. In response to offerors' questions, the agency amended the solicitation to require that, where an offeror proposes a

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