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B-291336.2 1 (2003-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacymc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller 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: Industrial Property Management File: B-291336.2 Date: October 17, 2003 Joseph C. Port, Jr., Esq., and Harvey J. Nathan, Esq., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, for the protester. Robert L. Duecaster, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that the agency failed to perform a proper best value analysis among competing proposals is denied where the record shows that: (1) the agency properly documented the benefits associated with selecting the awardee's higher-priced, higher-rated proposal over the lower-priced, lower-rated proposal of another offeror; and (2) there was no need for the agency to make a second tradeoff decision between the overall equally-rated proposals of the awardee and the protester, given the protester's 20 percent higher price. DECISION Industrial Property Management (IPM) protests the award of a contract to Ferguson- Williams, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DASWO1-02-R-0017, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Army's Defense Contract Command--Washington (DCC-W). The RFP sought proposals for caretaker services, and operations and maintenance, for the closed Stratford Army Engine Plant, Stratford, Connecticut. IPM, the incumbent contractor, contends that the selection of Ferguson-Williams for award was unreasonable, and that IPM's higher-priced proposal should have been selected instead. We deny the protest. 'The Stratford Army Engine Plant was closed in 1997, after a 1995 review conducted as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process. Until the closed facility is turned over to new owners, it must be maintained by the government.

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