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B-409628.2 1 (2014-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqkp0001 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 Decision [e for ic release. Matter of: gMg Management, Inc. File: B-409628.2 Date: July 8, 2014 John Manfredonia, Esq., Manfredonia Law Offices, LLC, for the protester. Krishon Gill-Edmond, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's rejection of protester's proposal for failure to provide proposed rates for required labor categories is denied where the record shows that the agency's actions were consistent with the solicitation which required offerors to propose rates for the labor categories. DECISION gMg Management, Inc. (gMg) of Martinsburg, West Virginia, protests the decision of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to exclude the firm's proposal from consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA 19A-1 3-R-021 0 for general management and business support services. gMg argues that the agency improperly rejected the firm's proposal because of omitted pricing information. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was set aside for veteran-owned small business concerns, provided for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts with an ordering period of five years. RFP at 1, 8. The RFP required that each offeror's proposal consist of five volumes: (1) technical capability; (2) performance risk; (3) staffing plan; (4) price; and (5) SF 1449, amendments and other documents.' Id. at 66. 1 Awards were to be made on a best-value basis considering technical capability, performance risk, staffing plan, and price. The first two factors were equally (continued...)

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