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B-419238 1 (2021-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: Fisher Sand & Gravel Company File: B-419238 Date: January 7, 2021 Scott R. Sleight, Esq., and Ellie Perka, Esq., Ahlers Cressman & Sleight PLLC, for the protester. Grant H. Willis, Esq., Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Robin A. Overby, Esq., Jones Day, for Southwest Valley Constructors Company, the intervenor. Alexandria P. Tramel, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that technical evaluation was unreasonable because the ratings assigned differed from ratings assigned by different evaluators under a different solicitation fails to state a valid basis for protest. 2. Protest challenging agency's best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the determination was reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and adequately documented. DECISION Fisher Sand & Gravel Company, of Dickinson, North Dakota, protests the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers' award of a task order to Southwest Valley Constructors Company (SWVC), pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. W9126G20R0087, for the design and construction of approximately 13 miles of border barrier in Laredo, Texas.1 Fisher protests the agency's evaluation of Fisher's proposal under the non- price evaluation factors, and asserts that the agency failed to reasonably perform and/or document its best-value tradeoff determination. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. 1 The procurement is titled the Laredo North Design-Build Border Infrastructure Project and generally referred to as Laredo North. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP at 1, 4.

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