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B-411073 1 (2015-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrco0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been for pi release. Matter of: ACC Construction-McKnight Joint Venture, LLC File: B-411073 Date: April 30, 2015 Karl Dix, Jr., Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, for the protester. Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Bennett D. Greenberg, Esq., and Rhett E. Petcher, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for Walsh Group Ventures, the intervenor. Travis D. Van Ort, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging agency unreasonably evaluated protester's construction schedule is denied where record reflects protester's schedule lacked adequate detail and evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with terms of solicitation. DECISION ACC Construction-McKnight Joint Venture, LLC (ACC), of Augusta, Georgia, protests the award of a contract to Walsh Group Ventures, of Chicago, Illinois, by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912QR-14-R-0022 for construction of a high school at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. ACC alleges the agency's evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on June 20, 2014, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for the construction of a high school at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. RFP at 1, 4.1 The solicitation provided that award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis considering the following factors, listed in descending order of 1 Citations herein refer to pages of the .pdf documents in the agency report (AR).