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B-413390.4 1 (2016-10-24)

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         G    A     0                                                   Comptroller General
     Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                           of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548

                                                          DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                                        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:   WILLCOR, Inc.

         File:        B-413390.4

         Date:        October 24, 2016

         Susan Warshaw Ebner, Esq., and Jacqueline R. Scott, Esq., Fortney & Scott, LLC,
         for the protester.
         Egon F. Donnarumma, Esq., and James B. Wyatt, Esq., National Security Agency,
         for the agency.
         Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the
         General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as
         unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably found that the protester's
         proposal did not adequately address solicitation requirements.
         DECISION

         WILLCOR, Inc., a small business located in College Park, Maryland, protests the
         elimination of its proposal from the competition conducted by the National Security
         Agency (NSA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. H98230-14-R-0069, for
         business, engineering, information technology, operations, and training support
         services. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of its proposal was
         unreasonable.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The solicitation was issued on July 21, 2014 as a small business set-aside. The
         RFP anticipated the issuance of up to 15 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
         contracts with fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, incentive, time-and-materials, and
         labor-hour task orders. Contracting Officer Statement (COS) at 1-2.

         The RFP proposal evaluation criteria (PEC) stated that the agency would evaluate
         the following factors: management/risk, technical/risk, scenario based example/risk,

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