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B-408469 1 (2013-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpwi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Ashridge, Inc. File: B-408469 Date: September 27, 2013 Michael H. Payne, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, for the protester. Henry P. Wall, Esq., Bruner, Powell, Wall & Mullins, LLC, for the intervenor. John E. Ballard, Esq., Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance and corporate experience is denied where the record establishes that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that an awardee's proposal violates a solicitation's subcontracting limitation is denied where the awardee's proposal does not, on its face, indicate that the awardee would not comply with the limitation. DECISION Ashridge, Inc., of St. Stephen, South Carolina, protests the award of a contract to Moorhead Brothers, Inc., of Blacksburg, South Carolina, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912HN-13-R-001 1, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for construction services. Ashridge challenges the agency's evaluation of Moorhead's past performance and corporate experience, and argues that Moorhead's proposal failed to comply with the RFP's subcontracting limitation. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued as a historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) small business set-aside, provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for construction services to raise the elevation of an existing containment dike, construct a new dike with a stability berm/counterweight, and make repairs to weirs. The RFP included

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