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B-419250 1 (2020-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebxl0001 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 Decision Matter of: Unico Mechanical Corp. File: B-419250 Date: October 29, 2020 Randy Potter, Unico Mechanical Corp., for the protester. Sheryl Rakestraw, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq. and Peter Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of this decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee's pricing is unrealistically low is dismissed because the solicitation did not provide for a price realism evaluation. 2. Protest that agency improperly evaluated the protester's proposal as deficient is denied because the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protester is not an interested party to raise additional challenges to the agency's evaluation of proposals or the agency's affirmative responsibility determination when protester would not be in line for award because the agency reasonably determined that the protester's proposal was deficient and, therefore, ineligible for award. DECISION Unico Mechanical Corp., a small business of Benicia, California, protests the award of a contract to Marine Diving Solutions, LLC, of Centennial, Colorado, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 140R3020R0025, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation for replacement of the intake tower cylinder gate stem assemblies at Hoover Dam. Unico challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals, the agency's affirmative responsibility determination for the awardee, and contends that it was improper for the agency to make award without establishing a competitive range and conducting discussions. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part.

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