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B-412321,B-412321.2 1 (2016-01-14)

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        G     A    O                                                  Comptroller General
      Accountabilty * 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:  J.E. McAmis, Inc.

         File:        B-412321; B-412321.2

         Date:       January 14, 2016

         Joseph Yazbeck, Jr., Esq., Brent Carpenter, Esq., and David H. Bowser, Esq.,
         Jordan Ramis PC, for the protester.
         Neil H. O'Donnell, Esq., Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., and Joshua M. Deitz, Esq., Rogers
         Joseph O'Donnell, PC, for Kiewit Infrastructure West Company, an intervenor.
         Autumn Lovato, Esq., and Thomas J. Warren, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps
         of Engineers, for the agency.
         Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest challenging agency's evaluation and comparative assessment of technical
         proposals under past experience, past performance, and quarry production factors
         is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation and comparative
         assessment were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
         DECISION

         J.E. McAmis, Inc. (JEM), of Chico, California, protests the award of a contract to
         Kiewit Infrastructure West Company (Kiewit), of Vancouver, Washington under
         request for proposals (RFP) No. W9127N-1 5-R-0003, issued by the Department of
         the Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps), for the rehabilitation of Jetty A on the mouth
         of the Columbia river, in Washington state. JEM challenges numerous aspects of
         the agency's evaluation of its own and Kiewit's technical proposals.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP, issued on August 4, 2015 pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation
         (FAR) part 15 procedures, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract on a
         best-value basis, considering the following evaluation factors: past experience, past
         performance, management plan, procurement, project execution, small business

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