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B-407748 1 (2013-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpko0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Crown Agents USA, Inc File: B-407748 Date: February 6, 2013 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., and Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., Offit Kurman PA, for the protester. R. Rene Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated protester's technical proposal and improperly excluded it from the competitive range is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the protester's proposal contained numerous weaknesses and was not among the most highly rated proposals. DECISION Crown Agents USA, Inc., of Washington, D.C., protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-OAA-1 1- 000126, issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to obtain technical support services for the Strengthening Core Economic Governance Institutions Project for South Sudan, identified as the CORE II project. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The aim of the Core II project is to strengthen the capacity of selected Government of South Sudan and state-level institutions to carry out their core functions without continued international expert assistance. The objectives for the project are: (1) to strengthen public financial management by assisting the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) and state ministries of finance; (2) to strengthen financial governance by assisting the Bank of South Sudan; and (3) to strengthen the management of the natural resources sector, in particular petroleum and

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