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B-411852 1 (2015-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadroj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 1 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: Dependable Lawn Care, Inc. File: B-411852 Date: October 22, 2015 Lawrence Sklute, Esq., and Ethan Brown, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Suzanne Sumner, Esq., and Casie E. Hollis, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, for Maintenance Engineers, Inc., the intervenor. Maj. David S. Gilkes, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly found the awardee's proposal to be technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Dependable Lawn Care, Inc., of Blue Island, Illinois, protests the award of a contract to Maintenance Engineers, Inc. (MEI), of Scottsdale, Arizona, by the Department of the Air Force under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4419-15-T-01 01 for lawn maintenance services. Dependable argues that MEI's proposal should have been found to be technically unacceptable and that the agency improperly treated the firms' proposals disparately during the evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on March 31, 2015, sought quotations for lawn maintenance services at Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma. The RFQ contemplated award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, with fixed-price contract line item numbers (CLINs), to be performed over one base year and four option years. RFQ at 4-148. Quotations were to be evaluated on a best-value basis considering price, technical acceptability, and past performance acceptability. Id. at 168. Award

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