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B-410066 1 (2014-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqry0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: MT & Associates, LLC File: B-410066 Date: October 17, 2014 Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Petefish, Immel, Heeb & Hird, LLP, for the protester. Alfred M. Wurglitz, Esq., Stephen P. Ramaley, Esq., and Lorenzo F. Exposito, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge PC, for MAF Interpreting, Inc., the intervenor. Debra E. Rubin, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to refer alleged nonresponsibility determination for small business concern to the Small Business Administration for consideration for a Certificate of Competency is denied where solicitation required offerors to identify in their proposals the proposed interpreters and their clearances, and the agency reasonably concluded that the protester's identification in its timely submitted proposal revisions of interpreters without the required security clearances called into question the protester's commitment to comply with the requirement, thereby rendering the proposal unacceptable; where a proposal, on its face, should lead an agency to the conclusion that an offeror has not agreed to comply with a material term or condition of the solicitation, the matter is one of the proposal's acceptability, and not a matter of the offeror's responsibility. DECISION MT & Associates, LLC (MTA), of St. Louis, Missouri, protests the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) award of a contract to MAF Interpreting, Inc. (MAF), of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HM01 77-14- R-0007, for interpreting services. MTA challenges the adequacy of discussions and argues that the agency's conclusion about MTA's ability to provide interpreters with required security clearances was, in essence, a responsibility determination that had to be referred to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for a certificate of competency (COC) review. We deny the protest.

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