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B-416811,B-416811.2 1 (2018-12-18)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                          been approved for public release.


Matter of:  SevlTech, Inc.

File:       B-416811; B-416811.2

Date:       December 18, 2018

Stephen P. Ramaley, Esq., C. Peter Dungan, Esq., and Jason Blindauer, Esq., Miles &
Stockbridge P.C., for the protester.
Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Suzanne Sumner, Esq., Erin R. Davis, Esq., and Brandon
E. Dobyns, Esq., for Solutions Through Innovative Technologies, Inc., the intervenor.
Allen Lotz, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency.
Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that the awardee misrepresented the availability of incumbent staff through
submission of resumes is sustained, where the awardee's proposal represented that it
had already negotiated contingent offers of employment when it had not, and where the
record shows that the awardee did not obtain prior consent from incumbent staff to use
resumes in its proposal.
DECISION

Sevl Tech, Inc., of Woodbridge, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to
Solutions Through Innovative Technologies, Inc. (STI-TEC), of Fairborn, Ohio, under
request for proposal (RFP) No. 70Z03818RS0000001, issued by the Department of
Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, for professional services.

We sustain the protest.

BACKGROUND

The Coast Guard issued the RFP on March 6, 2018, pursuant to Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to vendors holding indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
(IDIQ) contracts under the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution

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