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B-409130 1 (2014-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrwm0001 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Universal Strategy Group, Inc. File: B-409130 Date: January 27, 2014 Jeffrey Weinstein, Esq., The Weinstein Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. David F. Barton, Esq., and Elizabeth Haws Connally, Esq., Gardner Law, for Alpha Terra Engineering, Inc., the intervenor. Robert M. Sundberg, 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 of an agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is sustained where record shows that the evaluation and source selection decision were based upon factual errors. DECISION Universal Strategy Group, Inc. (USGI), of Franklin, Tennessee, protests the award of a contract to Alpha Terra Engineering, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912HQ-1 3-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for various training services supporting the Joint Construction Management System (JCMS). USGI challenges the agency's technical evaluation and selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The Army currently uses the Army Facilities Component System (AFCS) for, among other things, theater of operation development planning, facility construction, and construction material acquisition. The Corps is responsible for transitioning to the Army's new JCMS, which in broad terms, is intended to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with a single system for planning and executing construction in a more efficient and effective manner. RFP, Performance Work Statement (PWS), at 26.

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