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B-406964,B-406964.2 1 (2012-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpsh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability 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: Basic Overnight Quarters, LLC File: B-406964; B-406964.2 Date: October 9, 2012 Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Peter B. Ford, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for the protester. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated protester's proposal is sustained where agency failed to evaluate proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria listed in the solicitation. DECISION Basic Overnight Quarters, LLC (BOQ), of Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, protests the Department of State's award of contracts to Worldwide Corporate Housing, of Falls Church, Virginia, and National Corporate Housing, Inc. (NCH), of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SAQMMA12R0126, for long and short term temporary housing. BOQ asserts that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated its and NCH's proposals. We sustain the protest. The solicitation provided for award of multiple fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contracts, for a base year plus four 1-year options, to the offerors whose proposals represented the best value considering price and the following non-price factors, listed in descending order of importance: corporate experience; past performance; plan of operation and management structure; key personnel; quality control plan; and subcontracting and small business participation. RFP §§ M.2, M.3. With respect to price, offerors were required to offer a percentage discount to be applied against the General Services Administration daily lodging rate for the Washington, D.C. area. RFP § B.5. The solicitation required offerors to provide a minimum of 20,000 room nights and a maximum of 200,000 room nights, including 1, 2 and

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