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B-418424 1 (2020-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Timbered Rangeland Management, LLC File: B-418424 Date: April 15, 2020 Bret Daugherty, for the protester. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., U.S. Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency violated timber sale bidding regulations by allowing a bidder to participate in an oral auction via telephone is denied where the agency reasonably applied its discretion in determining to allow such participation, which also enhanced competition and the fair market value of the sale to the government. DECISION Timbered Rangeland Management, LLC, of Ellensburg, Washington, protests the circumstances surrounding its award of a timber sale contract under solicitation No. 13302, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for an approximate volume of 6,874 cubic feet (CCF) of timber to be cut and sold, and biomass to be removed, in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington. The protester primarily argues that the agency improperly allowed another firm to participate in the oral auction via telephone. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation for this timber sale was advertised in a local newspaper and via letter sent to prospective bidders on December 21, 2019. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Newspaper Advertisement, at 27-28; Tab 4, Letter to Prospective Bidders, at 29. The advertisement and letter provided that the agency would receive sealed and oral bids in public on January 21, 2020, at the Wenatchee Forest Supervisor's Office at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Id. at 29. Two sealed bids were received on the day of the oral auction; one from Timbered and one from Gibson and Son Road Building, Inc. Contracting

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