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B-418419,B-418419.2,B-418419.4,B-4184193 1 (2020-04-30)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States


                                             DOCUMENT  FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Decision                                   The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                           a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.

Matter of:  Project W Restoration, LLC

File:       B-418419; B-418419.2; B-418419.3; B-418419.4

Date:       April 30, 2020

Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., Luke Levasseur, Esq., and Roger V.
Abbott, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for the protester.
Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq., Samantha S. Lee, Esq., William A. Roberts, III, Esq.,
Moshe  B. Broder, Esq., and Adam R. Briscoe, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Central Plateau
Cleanup Company,  LLC, the intervenor.
H. Jack Shearer, Esq., John L. Bowles, Esq., and Christie Alvarez, Esq., Department of
Energy, for the agency.
Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Challenge to the evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is denied where the
evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

2. Challenge to the cost evaluation is denied where offerors proposed differing
technical approaches, and the agency found that the costs associated with the different
proposed approaches were reasonable and realistic.

3. Challenge to the award decision is denied where the agency reasonably explained
that the awardee's higher technically rated proposal was worth the higher evaluated
cost as compared to the protester's proposal.
DECISION

Project W Restoration, LLC (PWR), of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract
to Central Plateau Cleanup Company, LLC (CPC), of Aiken, South Carolina, under
request for proposals (RFP) No. 89303318REM000008, issued by the Department of
Energy (DOE) for the environmental cleanup of radioactive and hazardous waste at

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