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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.
Decision
Matter of: Gunter Construction, Inc.
File: B-412039
Date: November 30, 2015
Christopher Solop, Esq., and Lynn Patton Thompson, Esq., Biggs, Ingram & Solop,
PLLC, for the protester.
Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., and Matthew P. Moriarty,
Esq., Koprince Law LLC, for Keiland Construction, LLC, the intervenor.
Scott N. Flesch, Esq., and Frank A. March, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency improperly failed to evaluate protester's final proposal revision is
denied where discussions letter directed protester to use agency's online tool to
submit its final proposal revision as an electronic document, and to provide notice to
two e-mail addresses, but protester only successfully notified one recipient, who did
not retrieve the document, and the agency's security protocol automatically
subsequently destroyed the document.
DECISION
Gunter Construction, Inc., of Sulphur, Louisiana, a small business, protests the
award of a contract to Keiland Construction, LLC, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, by the
Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, under
request for proposals (RFP) No. W91247-15-R-0004, for construction services at
Fort Polk, Louisiana. Gunter argues that the Army improperly failed to evaluate its
final proposal revision (FPR), and awarded the contract to Keiland at a higher price.
We deny the protest.
The Army issued the RFP on February 27, 2015, seeking proposals for a job order
contract (JOC) for the [s]ustainment, [r]estoration and [m]odernization of
[p]ost[-w]ide [c]onstruction [e]fforts of real property facilities located at Fort
Polk.... . RFP at 1. Competition was limited to participants in the Small Business](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadrrh0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)