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B-291954.3 1 (2003-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 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: Beautify Professional Services Corporation File: B-291954.3 Date: October 6, 2003 Janice Davis, Esq., Davis & Steele, for the protester. Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., Law Offices of Barnhill & Associates, for Southway Services, an intervenor. Maj. Lawrence M. Anderson, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of the award to a firm with a higher past performance rating and a higher price is sustained where the source selection authority ignored the protester's significantly lower price and, as a result, failed to justify the payment of a substantial price premium. DECISION Beautify Professional Services Corporation protests the award of a contract to Southway Services under request for proposals (RFP) No. F05611-02-R-0027, issued by the Department of the Air Force for custodial services for the academic area at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Beautify challenges the agency's decision to award a contract to an offeror submitting a higher-priced proposal. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on July 19, 2002, as a total small business set-aside, commercial item acquisition conducted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 and 15. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for the base period and four 1-year option periods. The RFP, which included the clause at FAR § 52.212-2, captioned Evaluation--Commercial Items, stated that the agency would award a contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the RFP, was determined most advantageous to the government, with past

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