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B-290996.2 1 (2003-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: il 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: Omniplex World Services Corporation File: B-290996.2 Date: January 27, 2003 Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Timothy Sullivan, Esq., Thompson Coburn, for the protester. Elizabeth Gaffin, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's determination to eliminate a proposal for a custody officer services contract from the competitive range, based solely on a minimum requirement for direct corporate experience that was neither stated in the solicitation nor disclosed to offerors prior to proposal submission, was improper. DECISION Omniplex World Services Corporation protests the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. ACB-2-R-0029, issued by the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), Department of Justice, for custody officer services at the Krome Service Processing Center and the Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida. Omniplex protests the evaluation of its experience as technically unacceptable. We sustain the protest. The RFP, issued May 17, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for 1 year with 4 option years. The RFP stated that the technical factors, when combined, were slightly more important than price. RFP § M.2(a). The technical factors and their corresponding weights were as follows: 1. Experience/Past Performance a. Experience (30 points)

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