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B-419522 Mar 15, 2021 1 (2021-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecqc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Mission1 st Group, Inc. File: B-419522 Date: March 15, 2021 Justin A. Chiarodo, Esq., Stephanie M. Harden, Esq., and Oliver E. Jury, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Erica A. Harder Smith, Esq., and Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 elimination of proposal from consideration for failure to satisfy a material solicitation requirement is denied where record shows that protester, in fact, failed to satisfy the requirement. DECISION Mission1st Group, Inc. (MGI), of Arlington, Virginia, protests the elimination of its proposal from consideration under request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1 J-19-R- 13MP, issued by the Department of the Army to acquire systems engineering and technical assistance, and program management office support services. MGI argues that the agency unreasonably eliminated its proposal for failing to include evidence demonstrating that the firm was International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certified for the 2-year period preceding the deadline for submission of proposals. We deny the protest. This case involves just a single issue and the facts are not in dispute. The RFP contemplates the issuance of a task order for the solicited services.1 Among other 1 The task order is being solicited under the Army's Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract program. MGI's proposal was in the amount of $81,982,228. Because the value of the solicited task order is in excess of

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