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B-405167.6 1 (2012-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: InfraMap Corp. File: B-405167.6 Date: February 6, 2012 David T. Ralston, Jr., Esq., and Frank S. Murray, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Tina M. Pixler, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's estimate of requirements for underground utility location work is sustained where record shows that agency's inclusion of a 10% escalation factor for future work did not reasonably encompass significant future work associated with recently-awarded utility privatization contract which will require location services prior to burial of more than 150 miles of electric cable. DECISION InfraMap Corporation, of Glen Allen, Virginia, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 ZLK-1 1 -R-0003, issued by the Department of the Army for underground utilities location (UUL) services at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. InfraMap asserts that the RFP fails to accurately reflect the level of work to be performed under the contract. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 23, 2011, provided for the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for a base year, with 4 option years, to perform UUL services and surveys at Aberdeen in accordance with the RFP's statement of work (SOW). According to the SOW, UUL work involves electronically locating, physically marking, and mapping buried utilities, new and existing, prior to issuing excavation permits. SOW C.1.1. With regard to existing underground utilities, the UUL contractor is responsible for providing the exact horizontal locations by way of

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