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B-405365 1 (2011-10-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadohm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AL G A 0 Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Valor Construction Management, LLC File: B-405365 Date: October 24, 2011 Gordon M. Butler, Jr., for the protester. Jennifer Payton, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation's experience and past performance criteria are unduly restrictive is denied where the record shows that the provisions are reasonably related to the agency's needs. DECISION Valor Construction Management, LLC, of Pahokee, Florida, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W912QR-11-R-0047, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers for design and construction of an Army Reserve Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Valor asserts that the solicitation (a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) set-aside) is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. The RFP called for construction of a training center/unit storage building, an organizational maintenance shop, and an unheated storage building for the specified Army Reserve Center. Proposals were to be evaluated under six factors, listed in descending order of importance: experience (prime contractor and design team); past performance (prime contractor and design team); technical proposal information; management plan; safety; and price. With regard to the evaluation of experience and past performance for the prime contractor and design team, offerors were instructed to submit up to three projects completed within the past 5 years, which were similar in scope, size, and complexity to the solicited work. RFP §§ 5.1.1, 5.2.1. Each prime contractor's and design team's

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