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B-409996 1 (2014-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqqb0001 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: Korea Resources Environment Company, Ltd. File: B-409996 Date: October 3, 2014 Sunbong Choi for the protester. Jamal A. Rhinehardt, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Evaluation of protester's proposal is unobjectionable where record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation criteria as well as applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Korea Resources Environment Company, Ltd. (Korea Resources) of Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, protests the award of a contract to Pyungtaek Environment Company, Ltd. (Pyungtaek) of Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 QVN-1 4-R-01 04 issued by the Department of the Army, 411th Contracting Support Brigade, for solid waste management services at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Korea Resources argues that the agency unreasonably rejected its proposal as unacceptable. We deny the protest. Issued on April 10, 2014, and amended several times, the solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to provide solid waste collection and other integrated waste management services for a base period of performance, plus four 1-year options. Award was to be made using a lowest-price technically acceptable selection process. RFP at 74. For the purpose of determining technical acceptability, the RFP established three evaluation factors: (1) technical; (2) management; and (3) past performance. Id. at 76-78. As it relates to the protest, the technical factor was comprised of two subfactors, prior experience and business registration. The management factor was also comprised of two

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