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B-406975,B-406975.3,B-406975.4 1 (2012-10-09)

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 G             A    O                                                  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.
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          Matter of:   Tetra Tech EC, Inc.

          File:        B-406975; B-406975.3; B-406975.4

          Date:        October 9, 2012

          Holly A. Roth, Esq., Michael Bhargava, Esq., Jennifer A. Sincavage, Esq., and
          Howard H. Yuan, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, for the protester.
          Richard P. Rector, Esq., and C. Bradford Jorgensen, Esq., DLA Piper LLP, for
          Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., the intervenor.
          Tina Pixler, Esq., Jan McNutt, Esq., and Richard Bechtel, Esq., Department of the
          Army, for the agency.
          Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest that the agency improperly evaluated the awardee's proposal is denied
          where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
          terms of the solicitation.
          DECISION

          Tetra Tech EC, Inc., of Lakewood, Colorado, protests the Department of the Army,
          U.S. Army Materiel Command's award of a contract to Navarro Research and
          Engineering, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP)
          No. W9125F-1 1 -R-0002, for environmental cleanup services at the Rocky Mountain
          Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado. The protester asserts that the agency
          improperly evaluated the awardee's proposal and conducted an improper
          cost/technical tradeoff.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The Rocky Mountain Arsenal is a former chemical weapons production facility that
          has undergone a 15 year environmental remediation program. Tetra Tech is the
          incumbent contractor. While the environmental clean-up is now complete, with
          most of the facility transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Army retains

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