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B-402143.2,B-402143.3 1 (2010-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbfe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: BOSS Construction, Inc. File: B-402143.2; B-402143.3 Date: February 19, 2010 James T. Hopkins, Esq., Schiffrin Olson Schlemlein & Hopkins, PLLC, for the protester. Lee P. Curtis, Esq., and Troy E. Hughes, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for Mowat Construction Company, Inc., an intervenor. Craig T. Donovan, Esq., and James L. Weiner, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rated proposal unacceptable is denied where solicitation specified 18-month limit for completion of all work, and protester's proposed schedule showed completion of some activities 20 days after the 18-month limit. DECISION BOSS Construction, Inc., of Bellingham, Washington, protests the award of a contract to Mowat Construction Company, Inc., of Woodinville, Washington, by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (BoR), under solicitation No. 09SP101729 for construction services on the Weber Siphon Project, as part of the Columbia Basin Project in Grant County, Washington. BOSS argues that its proposed schedule was misevaluated as unacceptable, and that Mowat also proposed an unacceptable schedule. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 6, 2009, the BoR issued the solicitation, seeking proposals for installation of the second barrels of the Weber Branch Siphon and Weber Coulee Siphon on the East Low Canal of the Columbia Basin Project, in Washington. The solicitation instructed offerors to propose a technical approach, including a detailed critical path

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