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B-409135 1 (2014-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqbt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Bryan Construction, Inc. File: B-409135 Date: January 14, 2014 Robert S. Gardner, Esq., Robert S. Gardner Law Office, for the protester. Sue Ying Leong, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In procurement conducted using two-phase design-build selection procedures, protest of agency's decision to eliminate protester's phase I proposal from further competition is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation of the proposal was reasonable. DECISION Bryan Construction, Inc., protests the exclusion of its proposal from the second phase of a two-phase design-build competition under request for proposals (RFP) W912DW-1 3-R-001 4, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the design-build construction of a battalion operations complex. Bryan argues that the agency improperly evaluated its proposal and unreasonably eliminated it from further competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on February 1, 2013, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to design and build a battalion operations complex for the special operations forces (SOF) at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington. RFP at 11. The complex consists of seven building types: (1) SOF battalion headquarters and company operation facility (office building and office warehouse); (2) communications data center (telephone equipment building); (3) tactical equipment maintenance facility (heavy-equipment/vehicle maintenance facility); (4) military working dog kennel (boarding kennel/veterinary clinic); (5) maintenance

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