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B-420096 Nov 23, 2021 1 (2021-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaomut0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o 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 DecisionDOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision D c s a-c'a The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Matter of: Dust Busters Plus, LLC been approved for public release. File: B-420096 Date: November 23, 2021 Carol A. Thompson, Esq., The Federal Practice Group, for the protester. Kristen Davis for Rural/Metro Fire Dept., Inc., an intervenor. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Dust Busters Plus, LLC, a small business of Eugene, Oregon, protests the decision of the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management not to award it a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. 140L0621 R0005, which the agency issued for firefighter crew services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal. In particular, the protester contends that the agency unreasonably determined that the protester failed to adequately address a deficiency in its proposal. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on March 25, 2021, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 15. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP at 1; AR, Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 3. The solicitation sought firefighter crew services, such as fire suppression and management, mop-up activities, and all- hazard incidents, in six regions in Alaska.1 RFP at 4-7. Offerors could propose on one or more regions. 1 Work was not limited to the six regions listed in the RFP; crews could be assigned to the other regions in Alaska or the lower 48 states of the continental United States. RFP at 7.

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