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B-409095,B-409095.2 1 (2014-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqfr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A O Comptroller General AccoAn tabLilty inegity ReibiIty 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 Decision .beenapprovedforpubic release. Matter of: Tetra Tech, Inc. File: B-409095; B-409095.2 Date: January 17, 2014 J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., and Rebecca Bailey Jacobsen, Esq., Halloran & Sage LLP, for the protester. Daniel F. Edwards, Esq., Thompson Hine LLP, for URS Group, Inc., an intervenor. Stanley E. Tracey, Esq., and James M. Pakiz, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly evaluated proposals is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement statutes and regulations. 2. Under a solicitation contemplating the award of a fixed-price contract and reserving the right to perform a price realism analysis, protest challenging the agency's price realism analysis is denied where the agency reasonably considered the risk associated with the awardee's lower price, and concluded that the price reflected the awardee's proposal of an innovative, less costly, technology. 3. Protest that agency held discussions with the awardee, and thus was required to conduct discussions with all offerors, is denied where the agency limited the scope of its communication with the awardee to clarifying and confirming what the firm had already committed to do. DECISION Tetra Tech, Inc. of Pasadena, California, protests the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers' award of a contract to URS Group, Inc., of Omaha, Nebraska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9128F-13-R-0020, for performance-based environmental remediation services. Tetra Tech challenges the evaluation of proposals and asserts that the agency engaged in improper discussions.

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