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B-415442 1 (2018-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadufh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: United Excel Corporation File: B-415442 Date: January 4, 2018 Reginald M. Jones, Esq., Nicholas T. Solosky, Esq., and Rachel M. Severance, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, for the protester. Douglas L. Patin, Esq., Aron C. Beezley, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Gilbane Federal Joint Venture, the intervenor. S. DeAnn Lehigh, Esq., and Michael T. Geiselhart, 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 1. Protest that agency held misleading discussions is denied where agency identified deficiency in protester's initial proposal and accurately described it during discussions, and thus protester was not misled when its revised proposal addressed only part of the agency's concerns and agency did not discuss the issue further when requesting final proposal revisions. 2. Protest challenging evaluation of proposals and source selection decision is denied where evaluation was reasonable, consistent with solicitation criteria, reflected equal treatment between protester's and awardee's proposals, and supported agency's tradeoff decision to award contract to higher-rated and higher-priced proposal. DECISION United Excel Corporation (UEC), of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, protests the issuance of a task order to Gilbane Federal Joint Venture, of Walnut Creek, California, by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9127S-17-R-6060,1 for design, build, outfit, and transition services at the United 1 The RFP identified the eligible offerors indirectly, by listing the contract numbers of three design-build construction and initial outfitting services contracts, which were multiple award task order contracts (MATOC) awarded in 2013. The awardees were (continued...)

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