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B-279049 1 (1998-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahri0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Chant Engineering Company, Inc. File: B-279049; B-279049.2 Date: April 30, 1998 Michael H. Payne, Esq., and Joseph A. Hackenbracht, Esq., Starfield & Payne, for the protester. Robert Martin, Esq., Simon, Turnbull & Martin, for Rexroth Corporation, an interveno r. Glenn Heisler, Esq., Panama Canal Commission, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Evaluation of protester's proposal was reasonable and consistent with solicitation providing for submission of preliminary design for hydraulic power systems where agency reasonably found the information submitted with the preliminary design insufficient to establish that design could meet the agency's technical requirements. 2. Allegation that awardee received an unfair competitive advantage under solicitation to design and manufacture hydraulic systems for lock gate, because it performed an earlier contract to design a prototype system, fails to state a valid basis of protest, in the absence of evidence showing preferential or unfair action by the government. DECISION Chant Engineering Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Rexroth Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. CNC-82163-LM-29, issued by the Panama Canal Commission for hydraulic power systems to operate miter gates. Chant asserts that the evaluation and rejection of its proposal were unreasonable. We deny the protests. On October 1, 1997, the Commission issued the RFP for a multiyear (8-year) fixed-price contract to design, fabricate, deliver, and supervise the installation of hydraulic power systems to replace the existing machinery for operating miter gates at locks in the canal. RFP §§ B, C.1.1. The RFP advised offerors that: the gates

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