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           G    A    O                                                   Comptroller General
7    7  Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                         of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: Sohail Global Group

           File:        B-413132

           Date:     August 9, 2016

           Aashiqullah Zazai, for the protester.
           Jenny N. Masunaga, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the
           agency.
           Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest that the agency unreasonably found an Afghan firm non-responsible
           because it was ineligible for access to a military installation is denied, where the
           record shows that, based on classified information that could not be disclosed to the
           protester but was reviewed by our Office, the agency did not abuse its discretion in
           finding the firm non-responsible.
           DECISION

           Sohail Global Group (SGG), of Kabul, Afghanistan, protests its elimination from the
           competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. W5J9JE-16-R-0001, issued by
           the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (USACE), for construction projects
           in Afghanistan. SGG maintains that USACE unreasonably found the firm non-
           responsible.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The RFP, a two-phase solicitation, provided for the award of up to 12 fixed-price
           indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to support construction projects in the
           USACE Transatlantic Afghanistan district's area of operations.1 The procurement


1 The area of operations includes all 34 provinces in Afghanistan. RFP at 6.

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