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B-409040.3 1 (2014-05-21)

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G              A                                                          Comptroller General
               c ity * Integrity * Rellability                             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.
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          Decision

          Matter of:   HCI Integrated Solutions

          File:        B-409040.3

          Date:        May 21, 2014

          James S. DelSordo, Esq., Argus Legal, LLC, for the protester.
          Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest that agency improperly eliminated proposal from competition is denied where
          agency reasonably evaluated proposal as unacceptable as a result of an inadequate
          staffing plan.
          DECISION

          HCI Integrated Solutions of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the Department of the Army's
          rejection of the proposal it submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP)
          No. W52P1J-12-R-01 17, for logistics support services at the Presidio of Monterey,
          California. HCI asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The Presidio of Monterey is home to numerous military units, including the Defense
          Language Institute, the Army's 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, the Air Force's
          517th Training Group, the Navy Center for Information Dominance, and the Marine
          Corps Detachment, Presidio of Monterey. Performance Work Statement (PWS)
          at 1. The required logistics support services include three categories of logistics
          activities (maintenance, supply, and transportation), and deployment preparation for
          the tenants at the Presidio. PWS at § 1.1. The PWS described the different
          functions that comprised each activity and the tasks that the contractor was
          responsible for performing under each function. As relevant to this protest, the
          specific functions to be performed by the contractor included support for the
          consolidated installation property book office (CIPBO), PWS § 5.15 et sec., a

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