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B-405846,B-405846.2 1 (2012-01-05)

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          G    A     0                                                Comptroller General
lAccoauntability * Integrity * Reliability                            of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: Freedom Systems, LLC

          File:        B-405846; B-405846.2

          Date:        January 5, 2012

          Reginald B. McFadden for the protester.
          Darian A. Stanford, Esq., Slinde Nelson, for Command Management Services, Inc.,
          the intervenor.
          Capt. Michael E. Murray, Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest challenging agency's evaluation and rejection of proposal as technically
          unacceptable is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable
          and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
          DECISION

          Freedom Systems, LLC, of Manassas, Virginia, protests the evaluation and rejection
          of its proposal as technically unacceptable, and the award of a contract to Command
          Management Services, Inc. (CMS), of Portland, Oregon, under request for proposal
          (RFP) No. W9124D-1 1-R-0029, issued by the Department of the Army for meals,
          lodging and transportation for Armed Forces applicants processing through the
          Baltimore Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), Baltimore, Maryland.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFP, issued on May 18, 2011, anticipated the award of a fixed-price requirements
          contract for a base year and four 1-year option periods to the firm that submitted the
          proposal deemed most advantageous to the agency considering technical evaluation
          factors for mission capability and past performance (where mission capability was to
          be significantly more important than past performance), and price (where the
          technical factors combined were to be significantly more important than price). RFP
          at 15. Each offeror was required to submit an original proposal (including the firm's
          technical proposal and price proposal) and four copies of its technical proposal. The
          RFP emphasized that the proposal submissions, including each copy, was to be

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