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B-419327 1 (2021-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeclc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: McGoldrick Construction Services Corporation File: B-419327 Date: January 15, 2021 Douglas L. Patin, Esq., Aron C. Beezley, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Anna Kurtz, Esq., and Brian Payton, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's determination that consolidating its requirements was necessary and justified is denied where the agency concluded that the consolidation would result in benefits critical to the agency's mission success. 2. Protest challenging solicitation provisions as unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the provisions are reasonably related to the agency's requirements. DECISION McGoldrick Construction Services Corporation, a small business of San Antonio, Texas, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W9126G20R0051, issued by the Department of the Army, United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for vertical construction services. The protester contends that the solicitation is an inappropriate consolidation of several existing requirements, and is additionally unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP is a 100 percent small business set-aside, and contemplates the award of five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts for fixed-price vertical construction in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1-2. Previously, USACE maintained several separate contract vehicles for vertical construction in these states, and this RFP is one of several solicitations that the agency is pursuing to consolidate those previously separate

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