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B-420072.3 Mar 17, 2022 1 (2022-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaondn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
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
a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
Decision                             ! approved for public release.
Matter of: Shimmick Construction Company, Inc.
File:     B-420072.3
Date:     March 17, 2022
Giovanni Ruscitti, Esq., Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP, for the protester.
Casey McKinnon, Esq., and Michael H. Payne, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall &
Furman PC, for Michels Corporation, the intervenor.
Amanda R. Fuller, Esq., Alexandria P. Tramel, Esq., Maryann Blouin, Esq., and Jeremy
Weber, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Christopher An, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging the scope of the agency's corrective action is dismissed as untimely
where the protester waited to file its protest until after the completion of the corrective
action.
DECISION
Shimmick Construction Company, Inc. of Oakland, California, protests the award of a
contract to Michels Corporation of Brownsville, Wisconsin, under invitation for bids (IFB)
No. W9123821 B0010, issued by the Department of the Army, United States Army
Corps of Engineers for the construction of a reinforced concrete ogee weir and other
various drainage improvements. The protester argues that the agency, as part of its
implementation of corrective action, improperly solicited and considered additional
information from Michels to assess whether Michels met the IFB's definitive
responsibility criteria.
We dismiss the protest.
BACKGROUND
On May 27, 2021, the agency issued the IFB seeking bids for the construction of a
reinforced concrete ogee weir across the Success Lake spillway in Porterville,
California. The IFB sought various other drainage improvement projects to include the

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