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G A O Comptroller General
. inm lum 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: Caddell Construction Company, Inc.
File: B-411005.1, B-411005.2
Date: April 20, 2015
Dirk D. Haire, Esq., and Alexa Santora, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, for the protester.
J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., Halloran & Sage LLP, for Pernix Group, Inc.; and
Jonathan Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter
McWhorter PLC, for Framaco International, Inc., the intervenors.
John W. Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency.
Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. For purposes of future protests challenging the prequalification of potential
offerors for overseas embassy construction projects under the Omnibus Diplomatic
Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as amended (Security Act), our Office is
revising the timeliness rule set forth in Caddell Constr. Co., Inc., B-401281, June 23,
2009, 2009 CPD T 130. Although the instant protests are deemed timely, all
subsequent protests of prequalification decisions in a two-phase solicitation under
the Security Act must be filed within 10 days of when the protester knows or should
have known of the basis for the challenge.
2. Protests are sustained where the agency's determination that prequalification
applicants have met the requirements of the Security Act is unreasonable and not
supported by the record.
DECISION
Caddell Construction Company, Inc., of Montgomery, Alabama, protests the
decision by the Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Overseas Building
Operations, to prequalify Framaco International, Inc., of Rye Brook, New York, and
Pernix Group, Inc., of Lombard, Illinois, as United States person[s], as that term is
defined in the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986, as
amended, Pub. L. 99-399 (Security Act), codified at 22 U.S.C. § 4852, under
solicitation No. SAQMMA-14-R-0073 (RFP), issued for the construction of a U.S.
embassy complex in Maputo, Mozambique.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadrcb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)