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B-406134 1 (2012-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadonz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: TAG Mississippi Enterprises, LLC File: B-406134 Date: February 13, 2012 Tiffany H. Brown, Esq., for the protester. Ronald J. Goodeyon, Esq., and Katherine D. Denzel, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where evaluation was reasonable and consistent with terms of the solicitation. DECISION TAG Mississippi Enterprises, LLC of Jackson, Mississippi, protests the award of a contract to Terra Construction, Inc., of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912BV-1 1 -R-0030 issued by the Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, for improvements to the flood control levee in Augusta, Kansas. TAG contends that the agency's technical evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable and that the resulting award decision was improper. We deny the protest. The RFP sought fixed-price proposals for a contractor to perform various services including the construction of a new levee section and rehabilitating portions of the existing levee along the Whitewater River in Augusta. The RFP provided for award to the offeror submitting the lowest-priced, technically-acceptable proposal, with technical acceptability to be evaluated under the following equally-weighted factors: (1) experience; (2) personnel; and (3) past performance. RFP amend. 1, at 15-16. Failure to receive a rating of technically acceptable under any evaluation factor would preclude contract award. Id. As it relates to the protest, the RFP set forth various project specifications, which provided detailed staffing requirements and descriptions of the work to be

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