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B-415976 1 (2018-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States 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. Matter of: Apogee Engineering, LLC File: B-415976 Date: May 1, 2018 Peter B. Ford, Esq., Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., and Timothy F. Valley, Esq.,Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. R. Ren6 Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation requirement that an offeror's subcontractors possess a secret facility clearance at the time of proposal submission does not unduly restrict competition where the record shows that the requirement is reasonably related to the agency's needs. DECISION Apogee Engineering, LLC, a small business located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-OAA-1 7-000089, issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for global health technical professionals. The protester alleges that the RFP is unduly restrictive of competition because it requires that an offeror's subcontractors possess a secret facility clearance at the time of proposal submission. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND USAID issued the RFP on November 14, 2017, as a small business set-aside, seeking proposals to develop a new cadre of USAID Global Health technical professionals, and to provide such professionals to the USAID Bureau for Global Health and other agency offices in Washington, D.C. and overseas. RFP at 8. The competition was limited to firms holding one of the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) small business-pool 1, multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts for professional, scientific, and technical services. The RFP anticipated the issuance of a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order for a period of performance

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