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B-413155.14 1 (2016-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadspq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: ABSG Consulting, Inc. File: B-413155.14 Date: October 12, 2016 John F. Duncan for the protester. Kristen M. Nowadly, Esq., and Christopher Murphy, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation required offerors to provide evidence of past experience within a verifiable contractual document, the agency reasonably determined that protester's submission of an unsigned contract document was insufficient to meet the solicitation's requirements. DECISION ABSG Consulting, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests its elimination from consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS02Q1 5CRROO01 (frequently referred to as the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) solicitation) issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide training and development services across the federal government. ABSG asserts that the elimination of its proposal was unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND On August 17, 2015, the agency published the solicitation at issue, seeking proposals for customized training and development services, customized human capital strategy services, and customized organizational performance improvement services. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFP at 21. The solicitation contemplated multiple awards of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under which task orders will subsequently be issued. The solicitation covered eight North

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