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B-421618 Jul 20, 2023 1 (2023-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqcw0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has been approved for public release Matter of: Mike Coates Construction Company, Inc. File: B-421618 Date: July 20, 2023 Christina T. Hassel, Esq., and Colten Siedlarczyk, Esq., Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP, for the protester. Anthony Giannopoulos, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Lucas Della Ventura, Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of an agency's technical evaluation and best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the record shows that the evaluation and best-value tradeoff determination were reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Mike Coates Construction Company, Inc. (Coates), a small business of Niles, Ohio, protests the award of a contract to Burchick Construction Company, Inc., a small business of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 47PD0122R0044, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for construction work at the Joseph F. Weis, Jr. United States Bankruptcy Court (USBC) backfill project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of Coates's prior experience and past performance, and asserts that the agency's tradeoff analysis and best-value determination were arbitrary and unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 29, 2022, the agency issued the solicitation for construction work in the Joseph F. Weis, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Pittsburgh, PA, as a set-aside for small business concerns, in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 19. The Weis USBC backfill project consists generally of demolition, renovation, and associated infrastructure work, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and

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