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B-404535.5 1 (2011-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxs0001 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: Sygnetics, Inc. File: B-404535.5 Date: August 25, 2011 Tony Tarkowski for the protester. Lt. Col. Patrick L. Vergona, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Challenge to the procuring agency's determination that the protester was not eligible for award because it did not have an adequate cost accounting system is denied where the agency reasonably relied on a Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) report that found deficiencies in the protester's cost accounting system, and where the protester did not demonstrate that it has corrected those deficiencies. DECISION Sygnetics, Inc., of Rochester Hills, Michigan, protests the decision of the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command--National Capital Region, to reject its proposal in connection with request for proposals (RFP) No. W91WAW-09-R-0013 for personnel support services. The protester argues that the agency improperly concluded that it did not have an approved cost accounting system (CAS), as required by the solicitation and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on April 9, 2009, sought proposals to provide personnel support services for Department of Defense activities. The RFP anticipated awards of multiple indefinite-quantity/indefinite-quality (ID/IQ) cost-reimbursement contracts, with base periods of 1 year with four 1-year options. As relevant here, the RFP required offerors to have a CAS that was approved by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) within the last 2 years. RFP § M.4.5.d. The

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