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B-408788 1 (2013-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpyh0001 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: Mission Essential Personnel, LLC File: B-408788 Date: December 6, 2013 Craig A. Holman, Esq., Dominique L. Casimir, Esq., and Dana E. Peterson, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. Christopher T. Vrountas, Esq., and Adam J. Chandler, Esq., Vrountas, Ayer & Chandler, PC, for WorldWide Language Resources, Inc., the intervenor. W. Michael Rose, Esq., Gregg S. Sharp, Esq., and Keven A. Storey, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals concerning the offerors' current capacity to provide linguists is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the agency's evaluation regarding the awardee's proposal where the protester was reasonably found technically unacceptable, and where the protester does not challenge the acceptability of the proposal of an intervening offeror that was also found technically acceptable. DECISION Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (MEP), of Columbus, Ohio, protests the award of a contract to WorldWide Language Resources, Inc. (WWLR), of Fayetteville, North Carolina, issued by the Department of the Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), under request for proposals (RFP) No. H92222-12-R-0059 for translation and interpretation services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of MEP's and the awardee's proposals, and argues that SOCOM failed to conduct meaningful discussions with MEP. We deny the protest.

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