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B-420913.2,B-420913.5 Nov 08, 2022 1 (2022-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaonxb0001 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: Carlsbad Operations Alliance, LLC File: B-420913.2; B-420913.5 Date: November 8, 2022 Seamus Curley, Esq., Gregory Jaeger, Esq., and Chelsea L. Goulet, Esq., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and W. Benjamin Phillips, III, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP; and Ariel Trajtenberg, Esq., and Nadia Lee, Esq., Bechtel Global Corporation, for Tularosa Basin Range Services, LLC, the intervenor. Stephanie B. Young, Esq., Nicholas Bidwell, Esq., Greta Iliev, Esq., and James J. Jurich, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency evaluation of proposals and tradeoff decision is denied where the evaluation and tradeoff decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Carlsbad Operations Alliance, LLC, of Hopkins, South Carolina, protests the award of a contract to Tularosa Basin Range Services, LLC (TBRS),1 of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 89303320REM000077, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for the disposal of nuclear waste. Carlsbad challenges the evaluation of the offerors' key personnel, past performance, and management approaches and argues that the best-value trade-off determination was unreasonable. The protester also contends that the agency engaged in improper communications with the awardee concerning an agency-level protest. We deny the protest. 1 TBRS is a limited liability company (LLC) that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI). Agency Report (AR), Tab C.1, TBRS Tech. Proposal at 3.

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