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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.
Decision
Matter of: Omran Holding Group
File: B-409769
Date: May 28, 2014
R. Dale Holmes, Esq., and Robert G. Ruggieri, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas
Greenhall & Furman PC, for the protester.
David F. Innis, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal as unacceptable is denied
where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
solicitation's terms.
DECISION
Omran Holding Group, of Kabul, Afghanistan, protests the award of a contract to
[DELETED1], of Herat, Afghanistan (doing business as [DELETED]), by the
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, under request for proposals (RFP)
No. W912DQ-14-R-4013 (also identified as RFP No. W5J9JE-14-R-4014) for
design-bid-build construction services to complete construction of facilities for the
Afghan National Army 1st Commando Kandak, at the Gamberi Garrison in Laghman
province, Afghanistan. Omran argues that the Corps misevaluated the firm's
proposal as unacceptable.
We deny the protest.
1 The name of the awardee has been redacted from the public version of our
decision at the request of the Department of the Army, which states that it has both a
general policy against disclosure of the identity of local contractors (see United
States Central Command Joint Theater Support Contracting Command Acquisition
Instruction (Aug. 6, 2013), at 16), and a specific concern about security at this
construction site. Letter from Counsel for the Corps to GAO, June 9, 2014, at 1-2.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadqiv0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)