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B-310311.2 1 (2007-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaujt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Engineering Construction Services, Inc. File: B-310311.2 Date: December 12, 2007 Telena Moore for the protester. Charmaine A. Howson, Esq., Young Ha Cho, Esq., and Dationa Carter, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee materially revised its proposal after the agency established a competitive range and that the agency failed to consider the revisions in its reevaluations is denied where there is no evidence in the record to support the allegation. 2. Protest that the agency failed to conduct several portions of the required evaluations is denied where the record shows that the agency in fact conducted the evaluations. 3. Protest that the agency conducted inadequate discussions is denied where the record shows that the agency included in the first request for revised proposals all of the significant weaknesses identified in the final evaluation of the protester's proposal. 4. Protest that agency improperly evaluated subcontractor's relevant experience is denied where the requirement that relevant experience references must be for contracts that have been in performance for a minimum of 6 months merely established a minimum, and the agency reasonably considered the subcontractor's relative lack of experience as a weakness in the proposal. DECISION Engineering Construction Services, Inc. (ECS) protests the award of a contract to Environmental Safety & Health, Inc. (ES&H) by the Department of Energy under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP05-07OR23256 for roads, grounds, and heavy equipment maintenance services. The protester challenges various aspects of the

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