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B-406659,B-406659.2 1 (2012-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoza0001 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: Earth Resources Technology, Inc. File: B-406659; B-406659.2 Date: July 30, 2012 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., The Martin Law Firm, PLLC, for the intervenor. Madeline Shay, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's proposal is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation and reasonably based. 2. Agency reasonably assigned protester unknown confidence for past performance where it did not receive the requisite number of past performance questionnaires required by the solicitation. DECISION Earth Resources Technology, Inc. (ERT), of Laurel, Maryland, protests the award of contracts to EA Engineering, of Hunt Valley, Maryland; Cape Environmental Management, Inc., of Norcross, Georgia; PIKA-MP JV, LLC, of Stafford, Texas; Kemron Environmental Services, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia; and Plexus-PARS JV, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, under solicitation No. W912DR-10-R-0098, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for environmental services. ERT asserts that the agency improperly evaluated its technical proposal and improperly awarded a contract to Plexus-PARS JV. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the award of five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts on a best value basis considering the following evaluation factors:

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