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B-408846.3 1 (2013-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqdo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: DJW Consulting, LLC File: B-408846.3 Date: December 18, 2013 Jerry Alfonso Miles, Esq., and Jennifer L. Banks, Esq., Deale Services, LLC, for the protester. Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq. and Kristin E. Zachman, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for Dawson Technical, LLC, an intervenor. William M. Lackermann, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's rejection of the protester's proposal is denied where the record reflects that the agency reasonably rejected the proposal after concluding that it had not received the protester's organizational conflict of interest plan, which was a material requirement of the solicitation. DECISION DJW Consulting, LLC, of Lanham, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Dawson Technical, LLC, of Boerne, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7014-13-R-3007, which was issued by the Department of the Air Force, for advisory and support services for the Air Force District of Washington Procurement Directorate (AFDW/PK). DJW argues that the agency unreasonably rejected its proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The services to be provided under the RFP had previously been provided through a sole-source contract awarded under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program. For the contract here, the Air Force conducted market research and concluded that there were a sufficient number of 8(a) businesses capable of providing the needed services for the RFP to be issued as a competitive 8(a)

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