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B-412951 1 (2016-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsix0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: KDH Defense Systems, Inc. File: B-412951 Date: July 12, 2016 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, LLC, for the protester. Michael D. McPeak, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where the agency reasonably rejected the protester's proposals for tactical vests as unacceptable because they failed to comply with the solicitation's requirements for test data. DECISION KDH Defense Systems, Inc., of Eden, North Carolina, protests the exclusion of its proposals from the competitive range by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE1 C1-16-R-0002, which was issued for improved outer tactical vests (IOTVs). KDH argues that DLA unreasonably concluded that the ballistics test data submitted in the protester's proposals failed to meet the RFP's mandatory test criteria. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On November 13, 2015, DLA issued the solicitation, which sought proposals to provide up to 185,000 IOTVs. RFP at 1, 9-17. An IOTV is a multiple threat body armor system consisting of a base vest and modular components for tailoring protection levels to defeat multiple ballistic hazards across the battlefield continuum and manage armor weight. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Purchase Description, at 1. The RFP, which was set aside for small businesses and conducted using the best- value procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15, anticipated

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