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B-408278 1 (2013-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqfd0001 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: Trimble Navigation, Ltd. File: B-408278 Date: August 8, 2013 J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., and Rebecca Bailey Jacobsen, Esq., Halloran & Sage, LLP, for the protester. William A. Shook, Esq., for Technology Advancement Group LLC, an intervenor. Timothy L. Felker, Jr., Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and exclusion of that proposal from the competitive range is denied where the agency's evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable. DECISION Trimble Navigation, Ltd., of Dayton, Ohio, protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. W5J9CQ-1 3-R-0003, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Geospatial Center, for a precise positioning service/global positioning system (GPS) survey system. Trimble challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal and competitive range determination. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP provided for the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under which fixed-price task orders would be issued. Offerors were informed that award would be made on a best-value basis, considering the following evaluation factors, listed in descending order of importance: technical, program management, past performance, small business participation, and price. The technical factor included two subfactors: technical capability and technical risk. The technical

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