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B-404211 1 (2011-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadopj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: People's Accident Information Service, Inc., d/b/a Securit File: B-404211 Date: January 18, 2011 Amy L. O'Sullivan, Esq., Elizabeth W. Newsom, Esq., and Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Mark J. Fink, Esq., and Heather M. Spring, Esq., Cozen O'Conner, for AlliedBarton Security Services, LLC, an intervenor. James I. Wilson, Esq., Smithsonian Institution, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly failed to evaluate offerors' proposed prices to determine whether they understood the requirements of the solicitation is denied where the protester fails to allege or demonstrate that there were technical weaknesses in the proposals that would have been revealed by such an analysis. DECISION People's Accident Information Service, Inc., d/b/a Securit (Securit), of Flushing, New York, protests the award of a contract by the Smithsonian Institution (SI) to AlliedBarton Security Services, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals No. F10SOL1 0038, for unarmed security guard services at various locations in Washington, D.C. and New York. Securit asserts that the agency misevaluated proposals in response to the solicitation. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award, on a best value basis, of a firm, fixed-price contract, for a base year with four, 1-year options, to provide unarmed security guard services at numerous locations in Washington, D.C. and New York. Firms were advised that the agency would evaluate proposals considering price and five non- price considerations. In performing its evaluation, the agency used a point scoring scheme in which it assigned a total of 80 possible points to the proposals for non- price considerations, and 20 possible points to price. The non-price considerations

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