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B-413155.8 1 (2016-09-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsnd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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. The entire decision has now been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Dougherty & Associates, Inc. File: B-413155.8 Date: September 1, 2016 Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Jacqueline K. Unger, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Christopher Murphy, Esq., and Kristen M. Nowadly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation required that offerors demonstrate prior experience through submission of a single contract/task order/purchase order, or a collection of related task orders/purchase orders, the agency reasonably rejected protester's proposal for failing to comply with those requirements. DECISION Dougherty & Associates, Inc. (DAI), of Alexandria, Virginia, protests its elimination from consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS02Q1 5CRROO01 (frequently referred to as the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) solicitation) issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide training and development services across the federal government. DAI asserts that the elimination of its proposal was unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 17, 2015, the agency published the solicitation at issue, seeking proposals for customized training and development services, customized human capital strategy services, and customized organizational performance improvement services. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFP, at 21. The solicitation contemplated multiple awards of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under

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