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B-409683 1 (2014-07-01)

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'         G    A    O                                                  Comptroller General
r       Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability                        of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: Iroquois Bar Corp. & Scrufari Construction Company Joint Venture
                       d/b/a IBCSCC JV

          File:        B-409683

          Date:        July 1,2014

          Arnold Collier III, Iroquois Bar Corp. & Scrufari Construction Company Joint
          Venture d/b/a IBCSCC JV, for the protester.
          Qiana D. Davis, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency.
          Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal as technically
          unacceptable is denied where record reflects that proposal omitted or did not clearly
          convey schedule information required by solicitation.
          DECISION

          Iroquois Bar Corp. & Scrufari Construction Company Joint Venture d/b/a IBCSCC
          JV, of Lackawanna, New York, protests the award of a contract to SCMC, LLC, of
          Salamanca, New York, by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, under
          request for proposals (RFP) No. W912QR-14-R-0014 for the design and
          construction of a flight simulator facility at the Niagara Falls Army Reserve Base in
          New York. IBCSCC asserts that the agency's evaluation of its proposal was
          unreasonable.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The solicitation, which the agency issued on December 13, 2013, as a section 8(a)
          total small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for
          the design and construction of a flight simulator facility. RFP at 1, 7. Award was to
          be made based on the proposal determined to represent the best value to the
          government considering price and two factors, listed in descending order of
          importance: past performance, and technical. Id. at 8. The non-price factors, when

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