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B-410316 1 (2014-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqui0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 Decision dfor release. Matter of: The Walsh Federal, LLC File: B-410316 Date: October 20, 2014 Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Bennett D. Greenberg, Esq., Rhett E. Petcher, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. Dirk D. Haire, Esq., Alexa A. Santora, Esq., and Benjamin J. Kussman, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, for Caddell Construction Company, the intervenor. Javier E. Gonzalez, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency failed to consider the protester's past performance and lower price as a significant advantage, and failed to document the basis for the agency's source selection decision, is denied where the record supports the agency's evaluation, and documents a thorough consideration of the judgments made in the tradeoff analysis. DECISION The Walsh Federal LLC, of Chicago, Illinois, protests the award of a contract to Caddell Construction Company, of Montgomery, Alabama, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N69450-14-R-1756, which was issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, for nuclear power training facilities. Walsh Federal challenges the agency's evaluation of the offerors' past performance, and argues that the best-value tradeoff and source selection decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest.' 1 The agency requested that our Office process this protest under the express option provisions of our Bid Protest Regulations. 4 C.F.R. § 21.10 (2014). While our Office did not place this protest formally on the express option schedule, in an effort to expedite resolution of the protest, the parties voluntarily accelerated their (continued...)

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