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B-295973 1 (2005-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AHNTECH, Inc. File: B-295973 Date: May 11, 2005 Sam Aln for the protester. Capt. Geraldine Chanel, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably regarded protester's approach to staffing as a weakness where proposal implied that protester intended to do most of its hiring from the incumbent workforce, but protester offered no evidence that incumbent employees could be expected to accept its offer of employment and protester failed to propose an alternative approach to hiring in the event of the unavailability of the incumbent employees. 2. Protest of technical evaluation of proposal is denied where agency offered explanation for its findings that was supported by the record, and protester failed to offer any meaningful rebuttal. DECISION AHNTECH, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract to MPRI under request for proposals (RFP) No. W27P4C-05-R-X1408, issued by the Department of the Army, Joint Contracting Command-Iraq, for maintenance and operation of the Army's Butler Range Complex in Iraq. Specifically, the protester takes issue with the agency's evaluation of its operations plan as a no-go. We deny the protest. The solicitation, which was issued on December 13, 2004, sought a contractor to operate and maintain both the ranges and the life support area (LSA) of the range complex. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base and