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B-419205.2 1 (2020-12-28)

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


Matter of:   Consorzio WMC

File:        B-419205.2

Date:     December 28, 2020

Seamus  Curley, Esq., and Chelsea L. Goulet, Esq., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, for
the protester.
Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., and Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Department of the Air
Force, for the agency.
Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's rejection of the protester's prior experience references,
which were completed by individual entities comprising the protester's company and not
the company  itself, is denied where the solicitation required such experience to have
been gained only by the company submitting a proposal, and the agency's evaluation
was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION

Consorzio WMC,  of Venice, Italy, protests the award of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-
quantity (IDIQ) construction contracts to four other firms under request for proposals
(RFP) No. FA5682-19-R-A001,  issued by the Department of the Air Force for
construction, design-build, and design-bid-build services at Aviano Air Base and other
air bases in Italy. Consorzio challenges the agency's evaluation of its technical
proposal relating to prior experience.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The Air Force issued the RFP on August 28, 2019, seeking proposals to provide
construction, design-build, and design-bid-build services at Aviano and other air bases
in Italy. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RFP at 1; AR, Tab 9, Statement of Work at 3. The
RFP  anticipated the award of approximately six fixed-price multiple-award IDIQ

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