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B-411717.5 1 (2015-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrqw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rel lability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: LOTOS S.r.I. File: B-411717.5 Date: November 19, 2015 Herman M. Braude, Esq., and Edward Manchester, Esq., Braude Law Group, PC, for the protester. Kenneth J. Rich, Sr., Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement conducted under two-phase design-build selection procedures, protest of agency's decision to eliminate protester's phase one proposal from further competition is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably found the proposal unacceptable under the solicitation's technical approach factor. DECISION LOTOS S.r.l., located in Catania, Italy, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the second phase of competition, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N33191-15-R-0821, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for design-build and design-bid-build services to be performed in Sigonella, Italy. LOTOS argues that the agency improperly evaluated its phase one proposal and unreasonably eliminated it from phase two of the competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on March 11, 2015, contemplating the award of approximately five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, under a multiple-award construction contract, for a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. RFP at 18. The RFP sought the performance of construction projects located in the Sigonella area of operation, including the construction,

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