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B-271879.2 1 (1996-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaegt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Trataros Construction, Inc. File: B-271879.2 Date: October 31, 1996 Costas N. Trataros for the protester. Richard P. Castiglia, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Robert Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Proposal that received less than acceptable ratings in 13 of 17 evaluation areas was properly eliminated from the competitive range where the agency reasonably determined that in order to be rated acceptable, the proposal would have to be substantially rewritten. DECISION Trataros Construction, Inc. protests the decision of the Department of the Air Force to eliminate its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. F28609-95-R0004 for a Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements (SABER) contract at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.1 We deny the protest. The RFP was issued on February 14, 1996. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal was determined to be the most advantageous to the government considering technical/management factors and cost, with technical/management factors identified as more important. Five technical management factors, which were subdivided into subfactors, were listed in descending order of importance: project development/planning and minimal design; project management ability; 1We previously dismissed Trataros's protest for failure to file comments on the agency report or request an extension within 14 calendar days after receipt of the report as required by our Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.3(h) (1996). At Trataros's request we subsequently investigated our Office mail logs and confirmed that the protester had in fact filed timely comments with our Office which inadvertently had not been forwarded to the cognizant location. Under these circumstances, we will consider the merits of the protest. 5381031

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