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B-420538 May 18, 2022 1 (2022-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaonct0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Sehlke Consulting, LLC File: B-420538 Date: May 18, 2022 Damien C. Specht, Esq., and James A. Tucker, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Dominique L. Casimir, Esq., Michael J. Montalbano, Esq., and Robyn N. Burrows, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for KPMG LLP, the intervenor. Christopher Van Horne, Esq., Tyler E. Merkel, Esq., Marci A. Lawson, Esq., and Brian A. Young, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the awardee's proposal is unacceptable due to the subsequent unavailability of a proposed key person is sustained when the agency had actual notice prior to completing its evaluation and making its award decision that the individual was resigning from the awardee's subcontractor and was scheduled to depart prior to the commencement of contract performance. DECISION Sehlke Consulting LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to KPMG LLP, of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NRO000-21-R-0226, which was issued by the Department of Defense, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), for combined finance support services. The protester asserts that KPMG's proposal should have been evaluated as technically unacceptable because one of its proposed key personnel became unavailable to perform on the resulting contract prior to the agency completing its evaluation and award decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, which was issued in August 2021 and subsequently amended once, sought proposals for combined finance support services within NRO's Business Plans and

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