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B-407047 1 (2012-10-18)

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          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
Acc      ;ntabty bIngilty I ReliIbikty                                  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.
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           Matter of:  Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc.

           File:       B-407047

           Date:       October 18, 2012

           James S. DelSordo, Esq., Argus Legal, LLC, for the protester.
           Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Michael A. Gordon PLLC, for
           Urban Services Group, Inc., an intervenor.
           Dennis C. O'Connell, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
           Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq.,
           Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal under technical/inspection
           factor is denied where record shows that the agency's evaluation was consistent
           with the terms of the solicitation.
           DECISION

           Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc., of Kittery, Maine, a small business, protests the
           award of a contract to Urban Services Group, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, also a small
           business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-06P-12-GX-D-0021, issued by
           the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), for
           operations and mechanical maintenance services at the Robert A. Young Federal
           Building in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson challenges certain aspects of the agency's
           evaluation of its technical proposal.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           PBS published the solicitation at issue on April 3, 2012, seeking proposals from
           small businesses for these building operation services. The RFP contemplated the
           award of a fixed-price requirements contract with a 3-year base period of
           performance, two 3-year option periods, and an additional 1-year option period.
           RFP at 84, 114, 203. The solicitation identified four technical evaluation factors, two
           of which contained subfactors. RFP at 204. The three subfactors under factor 1,

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