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B-290732 1 (2002-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Shumaker Trucking and Excavating Contractors, Inc. File: B-290732 Date: September 25, 2002 Michael T. Zoretic, Esq., and Mark Rosencrantz, Esq., Stanislaw Ashbaugh, for the protester. Marion T. Cordova, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Challenge to agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation factors. 2. Agency's decision to select a higher technically rated, higher priced proposal is unreasonable where the record shows that the agency mechanically applied the solicitation's evaluation methodology; neither the source selection documentation nor the evaluation record establish a valid rationale for why the agency found the higher priced, higher technically rated proposal to be most advantageous to the government. DECISION Shumaker Trucking and Excavating Contractors, Inc. protests the award of a contract to URS Group, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. R1-11-02-001, issued by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, for the reclamation of the New World Mine in Park County, Montana. Shumaker alleges that the evaluation of its technical proposal was unreasonable and that the agency's selection decision was improper. We sustain the protest. The RFP, issued on April 1, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for the consolidation and capping of mine waste in the McLaren Pit, as the second phase of the New World Mine reclamation project. The solicitation established four technical evaluation factors: past performance, experience in similar work,

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