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B-408907.3,B-408907.4,B-408907.5,B-408907.8,B-408907.9 1 (2013-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqbq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * 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: ECC Renewables, LLC; Pacific Power, LLC File: B-408907.3; B-408907.4; B-408907.5; B-408907.8; B-408907.9 Date: January 31, 2014 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protesters. Margaret P. Simmons, Esq., and Kathryn R. Sommerkamp, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, 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 authority reasonably excluded protesters' proposals from competitive range where she reasonably concluded that protesters could not easily overcome deficiencies in their proposals pertaining to their failure to submit the requisite number of acceptable projects to demonstrate their financial capability. DECISION ECC Renewables, LLC, (ECC-R) of Burlingame, California, and Pacific Power, LLC, (PPL) of Boca Raton, Florida, protest the elimination of their proposals for wind technology from further consideration by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912DY-1 1-R-0036. PPL also protests the elimination of its proposal for biomass technology from further consideration under the same RFP. The protesters argue that the agency unreasonably excluded their proposals from the competitive ranges for the two technologies. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND The agency issued the solicitation to acquire reliable, locally-generated, renewable and alternative energy. In this connection, the solicitation advised offerors that the government intended to purchase only the energy that was produced and not to acquire any generation assets; accordingly, the contractor was to be responsible for

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