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B-420719 Jul 28, 2022 1 (2022-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaonls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Top Guard, Inc. File: B-420719 Date: July 28, 2022 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., Kevin B. Wickliffe, Esq., and Stephanie L. Ellis, Esq., Koprince, McCall & Pottroff, LLC, for the protester. John W. Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's rejection of protester's proposal because the protester failed to register in the system for award management prior to proposal submission is denied where the solicitation specifically required such compliance. DECISION Top Guard, Inc., of Norfolk, Virginia, protests its exclusion from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. 19AQMM-22-R-0051, which was issued by the Department of State (DOS) for local security guard services in Athens, Greece. Top Guard contends that the agency improperly concluded that the prime offeror was a joint venture, as opposed to Top Guard itself, and that the joint venture was required to separately register in the system for award management (SAM) database prior to proposal submission. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On February 16, 2022, DOS issued the RFP pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, contracting by negotiation for local security guard services at the United States Embassy in Athens, Greece. RFP at 2.1 The solicitation 1 The RFP was amended four times. Our citations are to the conformed version of the RFP provided as exhibit 2 of the agency report.

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