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B-401550,B-401550.3 1 (2009-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadazq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Anwar Al-Anduols File: B-401550; B-401550.3 Date: September 22, 2009 Dorothy E. Terrell, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Gregory, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter, for the protester. Robert B. Neill, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly evaluated proposal as unacceptable is denied where record shows agency reasonably determined that materials list and conceptual layout required by solicitation were inadequate or incomplete. DECISION Anwar Al-Anduols of Iraq protests the Department of the Army's rejection of its proposal as unacceptable under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91GYO-09-R-0028, for the design and construction of buildings and facilities in Iraq. We deny the protest. The RFP called for the design and construction of buildings and facilities, including an operations center, toilets and showers, a medical clinic, generator plants, a distribution center for electrical power, a water supply and distribution center, a reverse osmosis system, a water tank and pumping facility, and a facility for waste water treatment. RFP, Statement of Work. The RFP provided for award to the offeror that submitted the lowest priced, technically acceptable proposal. A technical proposal would be deemed acceptable where: The contractor submits a technical proposal containing a Design Package which clearly demonstrates the proposed method of construction and includes details which demonstrates a logical solution for the method of construction being proposed and include the following: