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B-405241.4 1 (2012-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Carothers Construction, Inc. File: B-405241.4 Date: July 26, 2012 Robert J. Symon, Esq., and Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. James E. Moye, Esq., and Mark 0. Masterson, Esq., Moye, O'Brien, O'Rourke, Pickert & Dillon, LLP, for Sauer, Inc., an interested party. Connie L. Baran, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Source selection official reasonably selected higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for award where he identified technical distinctions between proposals and determined that value of advantages associated with higher-rated proposal exceeded the difference in price. DECISION Carothers Construction, Inc., of Water Valley, Mississippi, protests the issuance of a task order for design/build of an elementary school at Fort Stewart, Georgia, to Sauer, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, pursuant to request for task order proposal (RFTOP) No. URSF-1 1-0004, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably selected Sauer's higher-priced proposal for award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFTOP, which was issued on February 25, 2011, to firms holding multiple- award, task-order contracts, provided for award of the order to the contractor whose proposal represented the best value to the government. Proposals were to be evaluated based on price and four technical evaluation factors (quality of building systems and materials, building function and aesthetics, proposed contract duration

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