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B-402429 1 (2010-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbgw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accounability - Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office 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: James Construction File: B-402429 Date: April 21, 2010 David E. White, Esq., Babst Calland Clements Zomnir, PC, for the protester. David F. Innis, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined that protester's lower-priced proposal, which contained significant weaknesses and risks, was not the best value as compared to the awardee's technically superior, higher-priced proposal. DECISION James Construction, of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to Greenleaf Construction Co., Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912DQ-10-R-4008 for the repair and modernization of an advanced individual training barracks building at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on November 14, 2009, as a 100-percent small business set-aside.' The RFP stated that the award would be made on a best-value basis and that an award, without discussions, was intended. RFP at 8, 13. The solicitation's four technical factors, listed in descending order of importance--past performance, quality of building systems and materials, contract duration and summary schedule, and staffing--when combined, were approximately equal to price. RFP at 22-28. 'The RFP was funded under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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