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B-420797.4,B-420797.5 Mar 21, 2023 1 (2023-03-21)

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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT   ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
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 redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.


Matter of:   BC Site Services, LLC

File:     B-420797.4; B-420797.5

Date:     March 21, 2023

Robert J. Symon, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
LLP, for the protester.
Clark Bartee, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Samantha  S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that the agency treated offerors unfairly in selecting which offerors were
invited to participate in second phase of the competition is denied where the agency's
treatment of offerors was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.

2. Protest challenging the agency's exchanges with offerors is sustained where the
record shows that the agency engaged in discussions, but the agency's discussions
with the protester were not meaningful.
DECISION

BC  Site Services, LLC (BCSS), a small disadvantaged business of Carrollton, Georgia,
protests its exclusion from consideration for award under request for proposals (RFP)
No. W912HY21   R0012, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers (Corps) for horizontal construction in the Corps's Galveston District and
Southwestern  Division. The protester challenges the agency's failure to include BCSS
as one of the most highly rated offerors invited to the second phase of the competition,
as well as the agency's evaluation of its proposal and conduct of exchanges with
offerors.

We  sustain the protest.

BACKGROUND

The Corps  issued the RFP on an unrestricted basis, with a portion of the awards
reserved for small businesses, on March 21, 2022, providing that offerors would be

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