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B-422904 Dec 11, 2024 1 (2024-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaorfq0001 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 Decision Matter of: Coastal Carolina Land and Timber, LLC File: B-422904 Date: December 11, 2024 Joah Hackman, Coastal Carolina Land and Timber, LLC, for the protester. Lori Polin Jones, Esq., U.S. Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Janis R. Millete, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's bid is nonresponsive because it failed to bid equal or higher than the minimum advertised rate for a particular species of timber as required by the solicitation. DECISION Coastal Carolina Land and Timber LLC, of Beulaville, North Carolina, protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under solicitation No. 20006 conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for the wild hog timber sale in Croatan National Forest in North Carolina. The protester contends that the agency improperly rejected its bid for having declined to bid the minimum advertised rate for a particular species of timber. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency advertised the timber sale in a local newspaper on August 1, 2024 and provided information about how to obtain the solicitation and other relevant information regarding the timber sale. Agency Report (AR), Tab 5, Newspaper Advertisement, at 18.1 The solicitation called for sealed bids offering to purchase various species of government-owned timber within the Croatan National Forest, with a public bid opening 1 The agency report exhibits are contained within one Adobe Acrobat PDF file and citations to the record reference the PDF document page numbers.

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