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B-409873 1 (2014-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqnv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: SST Supply and Service Team GmbH File: B-409873 Date: September 2, 2014 Paul D. Reinsdorf, Esq., for the protester. Michael Truppel, Optronic GmbH & Co., KG, for the intervenor. CPT Vera A. Strebel, Department of the Army, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's proposal and past performance is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION SST Supply and Service Team GmbH, of Krailing, Germany, protests the award of a contract to Optronic GmbH & Co., KG, of Konigsbronn, Germany, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912PB-14-R-3003, issued by the Department of the Army to acquire civilians on the battlefield role-player services for military exercises to be conducted at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany. SST maintains that the agency misevaluated the Optronic proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price requirements-type contract for a base year and up to two 1-year option periods to provide qualified personnel to perform the required role-player services. Firms were advised that award would be made on a low-priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) basis. The RFP included two non-price evaluation factors, technical and past performance. RFP at 10-11. The technical factor included four subfactors, and advised that proposals had to be assigned an acceptable rating under each subfactor to be considered for award. Id. As relevant here, the fourth subfactor was experience. Id. Under that subfactor, the

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