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B-310902 1 (2008-03-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. United States Government Accountability 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: Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. File: B-310902 Date: March 3, 2008 Karl Dix, Jr., Esq., and John S. Tobey, Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, for the protester. Amy Pereira, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly used negotiated procedures instead of sealed bidding procedures to solicit proposals to construct a drainage canal is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the importance of completing the project justified an accelerated construction schedule and, as a consequence, necessitated consideration of non-price factors in selecting a proposal. DECISION Ceres Environmental Services, Inc., protests the use of negotiated procedures by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in soliciting offers to construct an intake canal as part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912P8-07-R-0103. We deny the protest. The intake canal project is the final phase of the Dwyer Road project, a three-phase project under SELA.' Agency Report (AR), Tab A, Legal Memorandum, at 1. The first phase involved construction of a larger canal to discharge water from the pumping station to Lake Pontchartrain via the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal and 1 SELA was established in 1996, in response to severe flooding the year before, to improve flood control and drainage within three parishes in and around New Orleans.

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