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B-422437.2 Jun 20, 2024 1 (2024-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqlh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                       Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                 of the United States
Decision
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Matter of:  Cask Technologies, LLC   The decision issued on the date below was subject to
a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
File:     B-422437.2                 approved for public release.
Date:     June 20, 2024
Anne B. Perry, Esq., Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., Katie A. Calogero, Esq., and Lillia J.
Damalouji, Esq., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester.
Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for Resource Management Concepts, Inc.,
the intervenor.
Diana L. King, Esq., and Ana F. Smith, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest is dismissed where protester's proposal was technically unacceptable due to
unavailability of proposed key personnel, and, as a result, protester is not an interested
party to question the agency's evaluation or source selection decision.
DECISION
Cask Technologies, LLC (Cask), a small business of Stafford, Virginia, protests the
issuance of a task order to Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (RMC), a small
business of Lexington Park, Maryland, under task order request for proposals (RFP)
No. N6600123R3515, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Information
Systems Warfare Command for enterprise network cyber defense services. The
protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and resulting source selection
decision.
We dismiss the protest because Cask is not an interested party.
BACKGROUND
On July 13, 2023, using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart
16.5, the agency issued the solicitation to small business holders of the Navy's SeaPort
Next Generation indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Req. for
Dismissal, exh. 1, Source Selection Decision (SSD) at 2-3, 10; Protest, exh. 3, RFP

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