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B-406835 1 (2012-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Landscapes Inc. File: B-406835 Date: September 10, 2012 Jennifer Winn, for the protester. Doug Beck, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where protester's proposal was reasonably evaluated as unacceptable under experience evaluation factor. DECISION Landscapes Inc. protests the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) award of a contract to Davis Contracting, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912BV-12-D-0008, for various maintenance services at facilities in Big Hill and Elk City, Kansas. Landscapes asserts that its proposal was improperly found technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP provided for award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, for a base year with four option years, for seven categories of services, including mowing, janitorial work, park cleaning, pumping of sanitary facilities, herbicide application, snow removal, and tree maintenance. The RFP included detailed, comprehensive descriptions of the work to be performed and performance standards for each separate performance area. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal offered the lowest evaluated price and met or exceeded the acceptability standards for two non-cost factors, experience and past performance. With regard to the experience factor, the RFP required offerors to provide a minimum of at least two experience records demonstrating experience of the

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