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G                  U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                           of the United States




Decision


Matter of: Systems Kinetics Integration, Inc.

File:       B-416350

Date:       August 10, 2018

E. A. Dever Jr., for the protester.
Tamiesha C. Robinson-Asbery, Esq., and Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the
Army, for the agency.
Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest of the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the record shows that the
agency reasonably found the protester's key personnel did not meet the solicitation's
minimum qualification requirements.
DECISION

Systems Kinetics Integration, Inc. (SYSKIN), of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, protests
the award of a contract to MDB Group LLC, of Lorton, Virginia, under request for
proposals (RFP) No. W91 CRB-1 7-R-0030, issued by the Department of the Army for
technical, analytical, and financial services. The protester challenges the evaluation of
its key personnel and the agency's source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP was issued by the Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground
pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15 and set aside for
service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Agency Report (AR), Tab 17, RFP,
at 1, 47, 90.1 The RFP included a detailed performance work statement (PWS)


1 Our citations to the RFP are to the conformed version of the solicitation provided in the
agency report.

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