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G                  U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States




Decision


Matter of: High Noon Unlimited, Inc.

File:       B-417830

Date:       November 15, 2019

George B. Inabinet, III, High Noon Unlimited, Inc., for the protester.
Major Will A. Schmitt, Graeme Henderson, Esq., Lisa L. Baker, Esq., and Ellen Clark,
Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency.
Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging agency's evaluation of proposals and source selection decision is
sustained where record shows that awardee's proposal may have failed to meet
mandatory solicitation requirements.
DECISION

High Noon Unlimited, Inc., of Holiday, Florida, protests the award of a contract to High
Speed Gear, Inc., of Swansboro, North Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No.
M67854-19-R-1 549, issued by the United States Marine Corps for a quantity of rifle
magazine pouches. High Noon argues that the agency misevaluated proposals and
made an unreasonable source selection decision.

We sustain the protest in part, and dismiss it in part.

BACKGROUND

The RFP contemplates the award, on a best-value tradeoff basis, of a fixed-unit-price
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide a quantity of rifle magazine
pouches. The RFP included three go/no-go considerations (not relevant here), and
also provided that proposals found acceptable under the go/no-go factors would be
evaluated under three remaining factors: technical performance, past performance and

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