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B-416967 1 (2019-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... 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: GoTech, Inc. File: B-416967 Date: January 15, 2019 Thomas K. David, Esq., Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., and Katherine A. David, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP, for the protester. Lawrence M. Prosen, Esq., Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Jarret Dillard, Esq., and Nicholas J. Nieto, Esq., Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, for Facilities Development Corporation, the intervenor. Kathleen D. Martin, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's prequalification of the awardee for an overseas embassy construction project under the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as amended, is denied where the record shows that the awardee's submissions satisfied the requirements of the prequalification notice. DECISION GLOTECH, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Facilities Development Corporation (FDC), of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SAQMMA-1 7-R-0398, issued by the Department of State for information technology infrastructure rehab (ITIR) in Cairo, Egypt. The protester challenges the agency's decision to prequalify FDC to participate in the procurement. We deny the protest in part and dismiss the protest in part. BACKGROUND On August 4, 2017, the agency issued a notice soliciting prequalification submissions from contractors for Design-Build construction services for the U.S. embassy complex in Cairo, Egypt. See Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, Prequalification Notice, at 1. The ITIR project would be a comprehensive replacement of VOIP (voice over internet protocol) and network cabling throughout the Cairo embassy complex, which consists of four

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