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B-270491 1 (1996-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadyz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Atlantic Coast Contracting, Inc. File: B-270491; B-270590 Date: March 13, 1996 Ronald Draughon for the protester. Nicholas P. Retson, Esq., and Bryant S. Banes, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jerold D. Cohen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably decided not to attribute a proposed key employee's experience to the protester for purposes of a hospital housekeeping solicitation's contractor-experience requirement where the requirement was designed to ensure that the offeror's performance of the services in healthcare/patient care environments demonstrated compliance with federal regulations and hospital accreditation requirements. 2. Where agency reasonably excluded the protester's proposal from the competitive range as technically unacceptable and thus ineligible for award, it is irrelevant that agency did not address the protester's proposed price during discussions. DECISION Atlantic Coast Contracting (ACC) protests its exclusion from the competitive ranges established in two Department of the Army procurements for hospital housekeeping services, one for services at Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the other for services at Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, California (request for proposals (RFP) nos. DADA1O-95-R-0032 and -0040, respectively). ACC principally contends that the Army in each case improperly failed to attribute the experience of ACC's proposed Executive Housekeeper, who would be the key person under each contract, to the company for purposes of meeting the RFP's contractor-experience requirement. We deny the protests. The Fort Sill RFP required that the contractor have experience in providing housekeeping services in healthcare/patient care environments (e.g. clinical, laboratory, etc. settings); the Fort Irwin RFP requirement was almost the same. 30338

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