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B-416513,B-416513.2 1 (2018-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: S2 Analytical Solutions, LLC File: B-416513; B-416513.2 Date: October 1,2018 Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Ryan J. Starks, Esq., O'Hagan Meyer, PLLC, for the protester. David T. Ralston Jr., Esq., Krista A. Nunez, Esq., Micah T. Zomer, Esq., and Frank S. Murray, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for WiSC Enterprises, the intervenor. Marci A. Lawson, Esq., Kenneth Sachs, Esq., Jill O'Connor, Esq., and Joseph Fleishman, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency erred in finding proposal unacceptable for failing to demonstrate that the individual proposed for a key position possessed educational requirements specified in the solicitation is denied where the proposal did not explain in what way the individual's degrees were responsive, and did not accurately reflect the candidate's degrees. DECISION S2 Analytical Solutions, of Herndon, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to WiSC Enterprises, of Chantilly, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. T041, which was issued by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), under the agency's Emerald multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, for engineering support services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in evaluating its proposal, and in making its best-value tradeoff decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the issuance of a single fixed-price, level-of-effort task order for engineering and consultant services. Agency Report (AR), Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 3. The RFP included four technical evaluation criteria: (1) resumes and skill level;

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