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B-404919 1 (2011-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbvm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: ALOPS File: B-404919 Date: June 21, 2011 Anis Chlela for the protester. Maj. C. Peter Dungan, Department of the Army, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's rejection of proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation terms. DECISION ALOPS, of Kandahar, Afghanistan, protests the award of a contract to Gulf Supplies & Commercial Services (GSCS), of Kabul, Afghanistan, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91B4N-1 1-R-8016 issued by the Department of the Army for the construction of residential concrete huts (b-huts) at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. ALOPS challenges the agency's rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable, arguing that the underlying evaluation was unreasonable and inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on January 19, 2011, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to the offeror that submitted the lowest-priced, technically acceptable proposal in response to the RFP's requirements. The RFP provided that technical proposals would be evaluated for technical approach, past performance and price. Under the technical approach factor, which was to be evaluated on a pass/fail basis, the RFP identified the following six subfactors: (1) mobilization and construction plans; (2) material delivery and installation plans; (3) quality control plans; (4) safety plans; (5) badging plans; and (6) design, drawings and specifications. Id.