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B-414081 1 (2017-02-06)

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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
         Decision                                       n app     o pic release.



         Matter of:   Brasfond USA Corp.

         File:        B-414081

         Date:     February 6, 2017

         Lori Ann Lange, Esq., and Nick R. Hoogstraten, Esq., Peckar & Abramson, PC, for
         the protester.
         Scott D. Cessar, Esq., and Matthew J. Whipple, Esq., Eckert Seamans Cherin &
         Mellott, LLC, for Treviicos South, Inc., the intervenor.
         Susan E. Symanski, Esq., and Joshua R. Holmes, Esq., Department of the Army,
         Corps of Engineers, for the agency.
         Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal is denied where the record
         shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with
         solicitation's evaluation criteria.
         DECISION

         Brasfond USA Corp., of Wooster, Ohio, protests the award of a contract to Treviicos
         South, Inc., of Charlestown, Massachusetts, by the Department of the Army, Corps
         of Engineers, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912EP-16-R-0018 for
         rehabilitation and structural replacement construction services for the Herbert
         Hoover Dike at Lake Okeechobee, in Martin and Palm Beach Counties, Florida.
         Brasfond argues that the Corps misevaluated its proposal and made an
         unreasonable source selection decision.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP, issued on July 8, 2016, sought proposals to construct cutoff walls in an
         area identified as reach 1 of the Herbert Hoover Dike embankment, essentially to
         construct new concrete structures to fill gaps among certain previously-constructed
         areas. Contracting Officer's Statement at 1. The RFP stated that construction was

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