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B-414023 1 (2017-01-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General V E Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: ACME Industrial, Inc. File: B-414023 Date: January 13, 2017 Joesph Mariucci, ACME Industrial, Inc., for the protester. Ashley S. Amano, Esq., and Janis P. Rodriguez, Esq., Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal and price-technical tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows that both were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. DECISION ACME Industrial, Inc., of Staten Island, New York, protests the award of a contract to Federated Maritime, LLC, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTMA91 R1 600045, issued by the Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, for an Oily Water Separator System. ACME argues that the agency improperly evaluated the awardee's proposal and failed to make a reasonable price-technical tradeoff decision.' We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on August 30, 2016, as a small business set-aside, anticipated the award of a fixed-price contract for the procurement and custom installation of an 1 Because a protective order was not issued in connection with this protest, our discussion is necessarily general. Our Office was provided a complete copy of the agency report (AR) for our in-camera review.

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