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B-401999.2 1 (2010-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbdg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , GA O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: COB EventLizenz GmbH File: B-401999.2 Date: January 12, 2010 Georg Schreckhaase for the protester. Paul D. Reinsdorf, Esq., for SST GmbH, an intervenor. Capt. John J. Pritchard, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under a solicitation for Civilians on the Battlefield (COB), which requires that the contractor provide role-playing actors that interact with United States armed forces in various training scenarios, the requirement that the COBs be fully vetted, which excludes the protester, is not unduly restrictive of competition where the record supports the reasonableness of the agency's determination that fully vetted COBs are necessary to meet its needs. DECISION COB EventLizenz GmbH (COB Event) of Stuttgart, Germany, protests as unduly restrictive the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W912PB-09-R-0054, issued by the Department of the Army, for Civilians on the Battlefield (COB) for the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany. We deny the protest. The COB role players are part of a training program that plans, manages, and executes all mission rehearsal exercises for units training in the 7' Army Joint Multinational Training Command in Hohenfels, Germany. The COB role players replicate recent scenarios seen in the specific area of operations to which the unit will soon be deployed. For example, the COBs live in mock villages on the military installation and, based on scripted scenarios, interact with soldiers during security operations, searches, and other missions; and they portray various individuals from ordinary citizens, government officials, and insurgent sympathizers who challenge and stress United States armed forces as a simulation of the current operating

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