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B-292165 1 (2003-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im 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: Sam Facility Management, Inc. File: B-292165 Date: July 11, 2003 Charles E. Saunders, Esq., for the protester. Damon A. Martin, Esq., and Javier E. Gonzalez, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where the proposal failed to include information requested by the solicitation, was reasonably evaluated as deficient in certain areas, and was relatively high in price. DECISION Sam Facility Management, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range, and subsequent award of a contract to Excell Management Corporation, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62477-03-R-0509, issued by the Department of the Navy, for grounds maintenance services at the Naval Academy Complex, Annapolis, Maryland. Sam contends that the agency's evaluation of its and Excell's proposals, and the determination to exclude its proposal from the competitive range, were unreasonable. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued October 25, 2002 as a section 8(a) set-aside, sought proposals for grounds maintenance services, including mowing, plant maintenance, weeding and fertilization, flower bed planting and maintenance, policing of grounds and leaf removal, street sweeping, snow and ice removal, irrigation, and maintenance of

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