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B-417822.2,B-417822.3 1 (2019-11-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeazh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Global Accounting, LLC File: B-417822.2; B-417822.3 Date: November 27, 2019 Eric S. Montalvo, Esq., and Jennifer F. Hooshmand, Esq., Federal Practice Group, for the protester. Marie Cochran, Esq., General Services Administration; and Alison M. Amann, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated the protester's proposal as unacceptable is denied where the protester failed to submit a representation that it was not aware of any facts that created any actual or potential organizational conflict of interest and the solicitation specifically required that representation. 2. Protest that agency was required to request clarifications and thereby allow the protester to submit a clarification that included a missing representation about facts creating an organizational conflict of interest is denied where the required representation was substantive and could not be remedied through clarifications. 3. Protest that agency was required to refer the protester to the Small Business Administration for consideration of a certificate of competency is denied where the protester's part I proposal was properly rejected as technically unacceptable, and thus the rejection was not a nonresponsibility determination. DECISION Global Accounting, LLC, of Washington, D.C., a small business, protests the rejection of its Part I proposal, and its resulting elimination from the competition, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 47QFCA1 9R0033, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, for commercial-item program management and acquisition support services for GSA's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM), in Washington, D.C. Global argues that the GSA improperly rejected its part I proposal, and that the basis for rejecting the proposal was

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