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B-407900 1 (2013-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadprf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision ;been appovedfor public release Matter of: Grunley Construction Company, Inc. File: B-407900 Date: April 3, 2013 Robert J. Symon, Esq., Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., and Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Judith B. Kassel, Esq., Richard J. Webber, Esq., William W. Goodrich, Jr., Esq., and Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for Clark Construction Group, LLC, the intervenor. Katharine Healy, Esq., Leonard E. Lucas III, Esq., Jay Bernstein, Esq., and Kris E. Durmer, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal cannot be found reasonable where the record is inconsistent regarding the evaluation, and the agency has not explained the inconsistencies or adequately responded to the protester's assertions. 2. Agency conducted meaningful discussions with the protester where the agency led the protester into the areas of its proposal requiring amplification or revision by informing the protester that, among other things, the protester's proposed prices appeared to be materially unbalanced and unrealistically low. DECISION Grunley Construction Company, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Clark Construction Group, LLC, Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-1 1 P-1 2-MKC-0037, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), for the replacement of certain infrastructure at a federal office building in Washington, DC. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of its technical proposal was unreasonable, and that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions. We sustain the protest in part and deny it in part.

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