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B-291310 1 (2002-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacydv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im AllllL G A 0Comptroller General . ....... Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States 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: Bella Vista Landscaping, Inc. File: B-291310 Date: December 16, 2002 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Susan E. Hughes, Esq., Holmes, Schwartz & Gordon, for the protester. Timothy H. Power, Esq., for Maintenance Engineers, Inc., the intervenor. Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., and Michaelisa T. Lander, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of award to offeror that submitted lower-rated, lower-priced proposal in commercial services procurement for grounds maintenance services is denied where record shows evaluation and source selection were reasonable and consistent with evaluation scheme in which price and performance risk were considered approximately equal in importance; agency was neither required to give additional evaluation credit to protester for its performance as incumbent, nor to award on the basis of protester's superior performance risk rating where agency reasonably determined payment of associated cost premium was not warranted in light of awardee's lower proposed price and favorable performance risk rating. DECISION Bella Vista Landscaping, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Maintenance Engineers, Inc. (MEI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. F05611-010-R-0325, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force for grounds maintenance and landscaping services at the United States Air Force Academy. Bella Vista, the incumbent grounds maintenance contractor at the Academy, contends that the source selection was unreasonable and inconsistent with the RFP's evaluation criteria. Bella Vista contends that, in light of its successful performance of grounds maintenance services at the Academy, its proposal, with a superior performance risk rating and slightly higher price than the awardee's, should have been found to have offered the best value to the agency. We deny the protest.

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