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B-401469,B-401469.2,B-401469.3 1 (2009-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadazc0001 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: Akal Security, Inc. File: B-401469; B-401469.2; B-401469.3 Date: September 10, 2009 Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., Seth C. Berenzweig, Esq., and Stephanie D. Wilson, Esq., Albo & Oblon, LLP, for the protester. Garry S. Grossman, Esq., Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., and Gabriel D. Soll, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC, for Asset Protection & Security Services, LP, an intervenor. Douglas Becker, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest objecting to agency assignment of rating of acceptable to proposal containing multiple strengths is denied where assignment of such a rating was consistent with rating definitions set forth in solicitation. 2. Agency was not obligated to reopen discussions to give offeror the opportunity to remedy a defect that first appeared in its revised proposal. DECISION Akal Security, Inc. of Espanola, New Mexico protests the award of a contract to Asset Protection & Security, LP of Corpus Christi, Texas under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCEDM-09-R-00001, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the operation of a service processing center in Florence, Arizona. The protester challenges the evaluation of its proposal and argues that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with it. 'A service processing center is a facility where illegal aliens and aliens subject to final order of removal from the United States are detained.

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