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B-415042,B-415042.2 1 (2017-11-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduhg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Harper Construction Company, Inc. File: B-415042; B-415042.2 Date: November 7, 2017 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Mary E. Buxton, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. R.J. Pinto, Esq., Robert J. Marks, Esq., for Straub Construction, Inc., the intervenor. Deana Jaeger, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably found the protester's proposal to be unacceptable under the experience factor is sustained where there was a latent ambiguity in the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Harper Construction Company, Inc., of San Diego, California, protests the award of a task order to Straub Construction, Inc., of Fallbrook, California, by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62473-15-D-2434-X007 for construction services at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona. Harper challenges the evaluation of the firm's proposal and argues, in the alternative, that its proposal should not have been rejected because the solicitation is latently ambiguous. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 31, 2017, sought proposals for construction services from holders of the agency's indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ), unrestricted multiple award construction contract (MACC) for new construction and renovation of commercial and institutional building construction projects at various government installations located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Agency Report (AR), Tab 12, IDIQ MACC, at 1. The project included the construction of

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