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B-406856 1 (2012-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General !7 Accountablity * 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: All Phase Services, Inc. File: B-406856 Date: August 17, 2012 J. Hatcher Graham, Esq., for the protester. Andrew Bramnick, Esq., and Marina M. Kozmycz, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where the agency found that the proposal was technically unacceptable and would require major revisions to be made acceptable. DECISION All Phase Services, Inc., of Delray Beach, Florida, protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. HQ0034-12-R-0003, issued by the Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), for demolition and site restoration of the Navy Annex office buildings in Arlington, Virginia. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On February 7, 2012, WHS published the solicitation seeking proposals for the demolition of the Navy Annex office buildings and the restoration of the site to be used for the expansion of Arlington National Cemetery. RFP at 1-2. The RFP's statement of work (SOW) advised offerors to submit a base bid and seven priced bid options for various related work. RFP, attach. J.1.C, SOW, at § C-1.4. Award would be made to the offeror who submitted the lowest-priced, technically acceptable proposal. RFP at 43.