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B-293134 1 (2004-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapkk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: Blue Rock Structures, Inc. File: B-293134 Date: February 6, 2004 David J. Taylor, Esq., Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale, for the protester. Paul R. Smith, Esq., and Richard G. Welsh, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., and John W. Klein, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under request for proposals providing for award of multiple contracts, source selection authority's (SSA) decision to select lower technically rated, lower-priced proposals instead of protester's higher technically rated, higher-priced one was inadequately documented and thus could not be determined reasonable where SSA failed to furnish any explanation as to why he did not consider protester's higher- priced proposal to offer technical advantages or why he did not consider these advantages to be worth a price premium. 2. Agency properly did not apply Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) price evaluation preference in evaluating proposals where HUBZone small business's price exceeded the price of the lowest responsive and responsible offeror by more than 10 percent. DECISION Blue Rock Structures, Inc., a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business, protests the award of contracts to six other firms under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62470-03-R-0839, issued by the Department of the Navy for construction services at the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Cherry Point, North

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