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B-419472.3,B-419472.4 Nov 04, 2021 1 (2021-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaomju0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo       U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work
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: Ashlin Management Group
File:     B-419472.3; B-419472.4
Date:     November 4, 2021
Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr., Esq., and Christopher L. Lockwood,
Esq., Wilmer & Lee, PA, for the protester.
Anthony J. Marchese, Esq., and Carol L. O'Riordan, Esq., O'Riordan Bethel Law Firm,
LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., the intervenor.
Jose Otero, Esq., Jonathan I. Pomerance, Esq., and Robert S. Proudfoot, Esq.,
Department of Labor, for the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that awardee's proposal is unacceptable due to failure to notify agency that a
quoted key person became unavailable during corrective action period is sustained
when the awardee had actual knowledge of its key person's unavailability.
DECISION
ASHLIN Management Group, Inc., a small business of Bowie, Maryland, protests the
issuance of an order to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), of McLean, Virginia, under
request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1605C2-20-Q-00006, issued by the Department of
Labor's Employment and Training Administration for consulting services connected to
the Department's Job Corps program. Among other things, the protester contends that
the agency should have evaluated BAH's quotation as technically unacceptable due to
the unavailability of one of BAH's quoted key personnel.
We sustain the protest.
BACKGROUND
On September 9, 2020, utilizing the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
subpart 8.4, the agency issued the solicitation to federal supply schedule contract

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