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B-293344.2 1 (2004-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapkx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting 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: Security Consultants Group, Inc. File: B-293344.2 Date: March 19, 2004 Stephen M. Ryan, Esq., and Holly A. Roth, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for the protester. Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., and Karen D. Powell, Esq., Petrillo & Powell, for Coastal International Security, Inc., an intervenor. Aaron T. Marshall, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's decision to reopen competition, after making award to protester, in order to correct solicitation defect (failure to accurately disclose intended weights of evaluation factors), was unreasonable where record does not establish a reasonable possibility that any offeror was prejudiced by the defect; reopening of competition thus did not provide any benefit to the procurement system that would justify competitive harm to protester from resoliciting after exposure of protester's price. DECISION Security Consultants Group, Inc. (SCG) protests the action of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in canceling a task order awarded to SCG under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-07P-03-FCD-0131, issued by the General Services Administration for security guard services in Texas and Oklahoma. SCG asserts that the agency erred in reopening the competition to correct a solicitation defect. We sustain the protest. The RFP sought proposals to furnish security guard services for DHS's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at various installations in Texas and Oklahoma. The solicitation contemplated the issuance of a fixed-price task order under the successful vendor's Federal Supply Schedule contract for a base period, with 4 option years. Award was to be made on a best value basis, with proposals evaluated under four factors--supervision/key personnel, training plan, past

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