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B-421850,B-421850.2,B-421850.3,B-421850.4 Nov 07, 2023 1 (2023-11-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaopmv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States I DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. File: B-421850, B-421850.2, B-421850.3, B-421850.4 Date: November 7, 2023 Dawn E. Stern, Esq., David R. Lacker, Esq., and Christie M. Alvarez, Esq., DLA Piper LLP (US), for the protester. Moshe B. Broder, Esq., Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., David B. Robbins, Esq., Aime J. Joo, Esq., and Andrew B. Balland, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for The Cadmus Group LLC, the intervenor. Anastasiya Sidorova, Esq., and Alissa Dolan, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Michelle Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity is denied where the protester's interpretation of the relevant solicitation language is not reasonable. DECISION ICF Incorporated, L.L.C., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to The Cadmus Group LLC, of Waltham, Massachusetts, under request for proposal (RFP) No. 693JJ323R000008, issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration, to support the DOT's establishment and administration of the Reconnecting Communities Institute (RCI). The protester challenges various aspects of the agency's evaluation of ICF's technical proposal, the evaluation of Cadmus's technical proposal under the staffing approach subfactor, the price evaluation, and the best-value tradeoff decision. ICF also protests the scope of the voluntary corrective action that the DOT announced it would take in response to ICF's protest. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part. BACKGROUND The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. No. 117-58, Div. A, § 11509, 135 Stat. 588 (2021), created the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program. This program

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