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B-293105.13 1 (2005-02-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczjo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAN Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: DIY, Inc. File: B-293105.13 Date: February 7, 2005 Malcolm L. Pritzker, Esq., for the protester. Richard J. Vacura, Esq., Holly Emrick Svetz, Esq., and Peter C. Sales, Esq., Morrison & Foerster, for HomeSource Real Estate Assets Services, Inc., an intervenor. Rachael Blackburn, Esq., and R. Rend Dupuy, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging contracting agency's evaluation of protester's proposal, and resultant exclusion of proposal from competitive range, is denied where evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION DIY, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range, and the subsequent award of a contract to HomeSource Real Estate Assets Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. R-OPC-22505, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for management and marketing (M & M) services in connection with the disposition of single-family homes and other property owned by or in the custody of HUD. The protester principally argues that the evaluation of its proposal, and its resultant exclusion from the competitive range, were unreasonable. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued August 6, 2003, contemplated the award of indefinite- delivery, indefinite-quantity, fixed-unit-price contracts for M & M services in 24 geographic regions, for a base year, with four 1-year options. DIY's protest concerns the contract (a small business set-aside) for Area 4 of the Philadelphia Home Ownership Center, which covers properties located in Maryland and Washington, DC. Proposals were to include two separate volumes--a

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