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B-411916.2 1 (2015-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrsz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: West Coast General Corporation File: B-411916.2 Date: December 14, 2015 David S. Demian, Esq., Christopher S. Sillari, Esq., P. Randolph Finch, Jr., Esq., Finch, Thornton & Baird, LLP, for the protester. Bruce D. Rudman, Esq., Abdulaziz, Grossbart & Rudman, for Fast Track Construction Corporation, an intervenor. Mark Ezersky, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging price/cost evaluation scheme as improper because it relied solely on offerors' proposed general and administrative (G&A) rates as a proxy for price, when first raised after the closing date for receipt of initial proposals, is dismissed as untimely. 2. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of price proposals in a procurement anticipating multiple awards of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts is sustained where agency failed to evaluate the offerors' G&A rates in accordance with solicitation's requirement for submission of certified financial statements or a Defense Contract Audit Agency report to substantiate the proposed G&A rates, and instead accepted offerors' informal commitments regarding such rates. 3. Protest challenging agency's source selection decision is sustained where award determination was based entirely on a mechanical comparison of total technical scores and G&A rates. DECISION West Coast General Corporation (West Coast), of Poway, California, protests the evaluation and selection decision under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-09P-15-KS-D-00015, issued by the General Services Administration's (GSA), Public Building Service, for repair and alteration services with design-build effort for

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