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B-420280 Jan 19, 2022 1 (2022-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaonid0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Zafer Taahhut Insaat Ve Tiaret AS File: B-420280 Date: January 19, 2022 Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., Sam Zalman Gdanski PC, for the protester. Katherine D. Denzel, Esq., Matthew R. Keiser, Esq., Herbert J. Aldridge, Esq., Megan J. Tooman, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging price evaluation is denied where the agency evaluated price reasonableness in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria and where the solicitation did not require a price realism analysis. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance proposal is denied where the evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and well documented. Protester's objections did not rise beyond disagreement with the agency's evaluation judgments. DECISION Zafer Taahhut, Insaat Ve Tiaret AS (Zafer), of Ankara, Turkey, protests the award of a construction contract to Hatcon Insaat Taahhut Ithalat Ihracat Ltd. Sti. (Hatcon), also of Ankara, Turkey, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912GB21 R0008, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps), Europe District, for construction services. The protester contends that the agency conducted a flawed price evaluation, assigned unreasonable ratings to its own and the awardee's proposals, and performed a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on December 30, 2020, and subsequently amended four times, sought proposals for construction of munitions storage area facilities at Powidz Air Base in

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