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B-423202 Mar 07, 2025 1 (2025-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaorms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G- AOU.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been ---approved for public release. Matter of: Horizons Youth Services File: B-423202 Date: March 7, 2025 Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., and Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Jose Otero, Esq., and Ebtihaj K. Hana, Esq., Department of Labor, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging protester's elimination from the competition is denied where the agency reasonably determined that its technical proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's font type and page limitation requirements thereby giving the protester an unfair competitive advantage. DECISION Horizons Youth Services (Horizons), a small business located in Rockingham, Virginia, protests its elimination from the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. 1605JW-24-R-00008, issued by the Department of Labor (DOL), Job Corps Acquisition Services, for operation and management services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably rejected its proposal for failing to comply with the solicitation's proposal preparation instructions. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued as a set-aside for small business concerns on September 27, 2024, for a contractor to operate and manage the Cascades Job Corps Center located in Sedro Woolley, Washington. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, RFP at 10;1 COS at 2. 1 The solicitation was amended four times before it closed on October 31, 2024. Contracting Officer Statement (COS) at 2. Unless otherwise noted, all citations to the (continued...)

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