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B-414772 1 (2017-09-07)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                             of the United States
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                                             DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                           The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                   a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Montage Inc.

File:        B-414772

Date:        September 7, 2017

Shiva S. Hamidinia, Esq., Odin Feldman Pittleman PC, for the protester.
John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., and Hart Wood, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the
intervenor.
Jessica Lane Day, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that proposal was improperly rejected for failure to submit bid bond/offer
guarantee is denied where solicitation required offerors to submit the bid bond/offer
guarantee with their proposals.
DECISION

Montage, Inc., of Washington, D.C., protests the rejection of the offer it submitted in
response to request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. DJF-16-R-0000016, issued
by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for construction
work at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Montage asserts that the agency
improperly rejected its proposal for failing to provide a bid bond and the names of the
subcontractors it planned to use.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation was issued on February 21, 2017 to all companies holding one of the
FBI's small multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) construction

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