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G     A     O       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
Decision                                    a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                            been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Ryan Consulting Group, Inc.

File:        B-415716.8

Date:     October 31, 2018

Andrew J. Mohr, Esq., Daniel I. Prywes, Esq., and Catherine Kelly Kroll, Esq., Morris,
Manning & Martin, LLP, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Kevin P. Stiens, and Timothy
O'Keefe, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of protester's proposal under the technical
experience evaluation factor is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was
reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION

Ryan Consulting Group, Inc., a small business of Indianapolis, Indiana, protests the
exclusion of its proposal from the competition by the Department of the Air Force under
request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-17-R-1 000 for information technology (IT)
services.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On September 28, 2017, the Air Force issued the Small Business Enterprise Application
Solutions (SBEAS) RFP, which was set aside for small businesses, pursuant to the
procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 5, RFP at 162.1 The solicitation contemplated the award of 40 indefinite-delivery,


1 Citations to the RFP are to the conformed copy provided by the agency. AR, Tab 5,
RFP.

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