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B-420797.6 Feb 01, 2024 1 (2024-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaopvk0001 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: BC Site Services, LLC File: B-420797.6 Date: February 1, 2024 Robert J. Symon, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Clark Bartee, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and resulting elimination from competition is denied where record shows that evaluation was reasonable, and elimination was consistent with solicitation's two-phase selection process. DECISION BC Site Services, LLC (BCSS), a small disadvantaged business of Carrollton, Georgia, protests its exclusion from consideration for award under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912HY21 R0012, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps) for horizontal construction in the Corps's Galveston District and Southwestern Division. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the firm's proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Corps issued the RFP on an unrestricted basis, with a portion of the awards reserved for small businesses, on March 21, 2022, providing that offerors would be evaluated under the Two-Phase Design Build Process.1 Agency Report (AR), Exh. 6, 1 Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 36.3 sets forth two-phase design-build selection procedures authorized for contracts for construction and architect-engineer services. FAR 36.300.

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