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B-413778,B-413778.2 1 (2016-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: AMEC-Gilbane, JV File: B-413778; B-413778.2 Date: December 22, 2016 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the protester. Melanie L. Braddock, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that proposal was unreasonably eliminated from the competitive range is denied where agency reasonably determined that proposal was unacceptable under technical approach to sample task order factor. DECISION AMEC-Gilbane, JV, of Alpharetta, Georgia, protests the elimination from the competitive range of the proposal it submitted in response to request for proposals (RFP) No. W912DY-1 4-R-01 00, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), for environmental remediation services. AMEC asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal and eliminated AMEC from the competitive range. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on July 18, 2014, contemplated the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, task-order contracts for environmental remediation services. These services could include, for example, preparation of work plans, multiple phases of field investigations, feasibility studies, and remedial design. RFP at 12. The solicitation stated that award would be made on a best-value basis, considering price and the following five non-price factors: technical capability; technical approach to sample task order; organization management; past performance; and