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G A O 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.
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Matter of: CeReTechs Ltd.
File: B-406873.3
Date: September 25, 2012
Gerald H. Werfel, Esq., Pompan, Murray & Werfel, PLC, for the protester.
Brian Bentley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest of the exclusion of the protester's proposal from the competitive range is
denied where protester's proposal was reasonably found to be unacceptable.
DECISION
CeReTechs LTD, of Kabul, Afghanistan, protests the exclusion of its proposal from
the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91B4M-12-R-4002,
issued by the Department of the Army, Kabul Regional Contracting Center, for
expansion of information technology networks supporting the Afghan Ministries of
Interior and Defense.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The RFP provided for the award, on a lowest-priced, technically-acceptable basis,
of two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for a base year and 3 option
years. A detailed performance work statement (PWS) was provided that described
the required work for particular regions in Afghanistan. PWS T 8.2. Offerors were
informed that the agency would issue fixed-price task orders for work under the
contract, and that each performance period had an estimated value of $60 million.
RFP amend. 2, at 17.
The RFP also provided instructions for the preparation of proposals. Offerors were
instructed to submit their proposals in three volumes for technical support, past
performance and price, and were informed that [c]omprehensive responses to the
requirements were required. RFP amend. 2, at 21. With respect to their price](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadpbc0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)