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B-405970 1 (2012-01-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadorp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General LAccountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office f..................................................................................... . . Washington, DC 20548 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: Orion Technology, Inc. File: B-405970 Date: January 13, 2012 Victor G. Klingelhofer, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Laurel A. Hockey, Esq., and Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Albert B. Krachman, Esq., Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., and Brian S. Gocial, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for Katmai Information Technologies, LLC, an intervenor. Capt. Nicholes Dembinski, Department of the Army, and Meagan K. Guerzon, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting officer reasonably declined to revisit protester's non-responsibility following the Small Business Administration's (SBA) refusal to issue a certificate of competency (COC) where the only new information consisted of a single unsolicited e-mail from protester's proposed subcontractor providing blanket statements of support, without providing evidence to rebut the basis for the contracting officer's initial non-responsibility determination, or the SBA's refusal to issue a COC. DECISION Orion Technology, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract to Katmai Information Technologies, LLC, of Anchorage, Alaska, by the Department of the Army, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124J-11-R-0013, for range operations and support services at Fort Hood, Texas. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Army issued the RFP on April 29, 2011, as a set-aside for eligible small business firms under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) contracting program. The RFP contemplated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with some fixed-price line items. Proposals were to include four volumes: general, cost/price, mission capability, and past performance. RFP at 32. The cost/price volume was to

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