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B-411897.2,B-411897.4 1 (2015-11-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrrw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Protect the Force, Inc. File: B-411897.2; B-411897.4 Date: November 24, 2015 David S. Black, Esq., William M. Pannier, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Daniel P. Hanlon, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Paul A. Debolt, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., Elizabeth Ann Buehler, Esq., and Collier L. Johnson II, Esq., Venable LLP, for Point Blank Enterprises; and Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos & Lamer, P.C., for Short Bark Industries, the intervenors. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Jan S. McNutt, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of awardees' technical proposals is sustained where the evaluation was not reasonable and not consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Protect the Force, Inc. (PTF), of Alpharetta, Georgia, protests the award of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts to Point Blank Enterprises, of Pompano Beach, Florida; Short Bark Industries, of Vonore, Tennessee; and Carter Enterprises, of Brooklyn, New York, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 CRB-1 5-R-0027, issued by the Department of the Army for ballistic combat shirts. PTF alleges several improprieties in the agency's conduct of the procurement, including that the agency unreasonably evaluated all of the awardees' technical proposals. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on May 20, 2015, for the procurement of ballistic combat shirts (BCS) with torso and extremity protection. The RFP contemplated award of up to

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