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B-418475.4 1 (2020-09-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebtk0001 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: Evergreen JV File: B-418475.4 Date: September 23, 2020 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., J. Matthew Carter, Esq., and Mary E. Buxton, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, and April R. Guevarra, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Raymond Richards, Esq., Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency evaluated statements of qualification submitted in response to a synopsis for architect/engineering services in a manner inconsistent with stated evaluation criteria is sustained where the agency's evaluation did not include a qualitative assessment of the statements of qualification. DECISION Evergreen JV, a small business of San Diego, California, protests the evaluation and nonselection of its statement of qualifications for negotiation pursuant to synopsis No. FA8903-19-R-0097, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for architect/engineering (A/E) services. Evergreen challenges the Air Force's evaluation as unreasonable and not supported by the record. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND Generally, A/E procurements, such as the one at issue in this protest, are conducted pursuant to special procedures established by the Selection of Architects and Engineers Statute, also referred to as the Brooks Act, 40 U.S.C. §§ 1101-1104. These special procedures are implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 36.6. Under the competitive procedures established by FAR subpart 36.6, an agency issues a synopsis, which functions in a manner analogous to a traditional solicitation. FAR 36.601-2, 36.602. In response to a synopsis for A/E requirements, interested firms

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