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B-411812,B-411812.2 1 (2015-09-21)

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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:   ICI Services Corporation

         File:        B-411812; B-411812.2

         Date:        September 21, 2015

         Michael J. Gardner, Esq., and Shomari Brock Wade, Esq., Troutman Sanders LLP,
         for the protester.
         Riziane Riahi, Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, for the
         agency.
         Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest of the rejection of the protester's proposal is denied, where the agency
         reasonably found, consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, that the protester's
         proposed key personnel failed to satisfy the solicitation's minimum requirements.
         DECISION

         ICI Services Corporation, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, protests the Department of the
         Navy's elimination of its proposal from the competition under request for proposals
         (RFP) No. N00024-13-R-3042, for professional support services for the Program
         Executive Office (PEO) for Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS). ICI challenges the
         agency's determination that two of ICl's key personnel failed to meet the
         solicitation's minimum requirements.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP was issued as a small business set-aside on December 20, 2012, to firms
         holding Seaport-Enhanced multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
         (IDIQ) contracts.' The RFP contemplated the issuance of a task order on a best

         1 The RFP cited in this decision is the version issued as amendment 6 on March 11,
         2013. Agency Report (AR), exh. 1.

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