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B-287697 1 (2001-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamqr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountablity* Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Gulf Group, Inc. File: B-287697; B-287697.2 Date: July 24, 2001 Patricia A. Snyder, Esq., and Thomas E. Abernathy, Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock, for the protester. Joseph A. Gonzales, Esq., and Larry Beall, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth W. Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly applied undisclosed evaluation factor regarding specific experience of offerors is denied; agency properly may consider specific experience where, as here, solicitation provides for evaluation of experience. 2. Agency reasonably considered past performance reference in evaluating protester's proposal, even though protester claims the reference mistakenly rated its performance too low, where nothing on the face of the reference rating gave agency reason to look behind it. DECISION Gulf Group, Inc. protests the award of a contract to ABC Landclearing & Development/Tri-State Design and Construction, Inc. (ABC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DACWO1-00-R-0030, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a competitive section 8(a) basis for dredge material disposal area management and levee maintenance. Gulf principally challenges the technical evaluation. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for award of a contract on an indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity (ID/IQ) basis for all rental equipment, operators, supplies, materials, labor, and transportation necessary to perform maintenance and rehabilitation of approximately 18 dredge material disposal sites and levee maintenance along

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