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




Decision


Matter of:  KBR  Services, LLC

File:       B-422839

Date:       November  22, 2024

Michael F. Mason, Esq., Christine Reynolds, Esq., and Taylor Hillman, Esq.,
Hogan  Lovells US LLP, for the protester.
Lauren Thompson,  Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Raymond  Richards, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation as understating the agency's actual
need and preventing offerors from competing intelligently and equally is denied where
the protester fails to demonstrate solicitation improprieties.

2. Protester is not an interested party to argue that the solicitation does not provide
other offerors adequate information regarding labor rates.
DECISION

KBR  Services, LLC (KBR) of Houston, Texas, protests the terms of request for
proposals (RFP) No. N6247022R0005,  issued by the Department of the Navy for base
operation support services at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. KBR contends that the terms
of the solicitation understate the agency's need and prevent offerors from competing
intelligently and equally.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The Navy issued the RFP on March 4, 2024, under the procedures of Federal
Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, RFP at 2, 560.1


1 The Navy filed the solicitation in a consolidated Adobe PDF document; our citations to
the RFP reference the PDF page numbers of the consolidated document.

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