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B-400753.3 1 (2009-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadavj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company File: B-400753.3 Date: March 25, 2009 James F. Nagle, Esq., and Jonathan A. DeMella, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP, for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Michael D. Maloney, Esq., and Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for Walton Construction Company, LLC, an intervenor. Charles L. Webster III, Esq., Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging contracting agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. 2. Price/technical tradeoff was reasonable where source selection official identified technical distinctions between competing proposals and specifically determined that higher technically rated proposal represented best value despite higher price. DECISION W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company, of Oxford, Mississippi, protests the award of a contract to Walton Construction Company, LLC, of Harahan, Louisiana, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9162G-08-R-0192, issued by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, for the design and construction of military barracks and central energy plants at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Yates argues that the agency's evaluation of its proposal and subsequent source selection decision were improper. We deny the protest.

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