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B-270499.3 1 (1996-04-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadzb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Schleicher Community Corrections Center, Inc. File: B-270499.3; B-270499.4; B-270499.5 Date: April 18, 1996 Kent C. Dugmore, Esq., Parsons, Behle & Latimer, for the protester. Granette Trent, Esq., Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Contention that protester's proposal for residential community corrections services should have been rated higher in the evaluation than other proposals because protester offered the only operational, accredited facility, is without merit, where solicitation required only that proposed facility be fully operational and ready for performance to begin within 60 days after award, and the evaluation scheme announced in the solicitation did not contemplate rewarding proposals which offered an existing, operational facility. 2. Agency conducted meaningful discussions where the record shows that the agency's detailed written discussion items corresponded to the deficiencies the evaluators identified in the protester's proposal; specifically referenced the applicable sections of the solicitation's requirements where the protester's proposal was found deficient; and sufficiently alerted the protester to the specific areas of its proposal requiring further explanation. 3. Even if contracting agency should have held discussions with protester regarding weaknesses in one area of its proposal, there is no basis to object to the award decision where the record shows that even if discussions had been held and protester's proposal had been awarded the maximum number of points available in that area, the protester's proposal would not have displaced the awardee's or another offeror's higher rated proposals, both of which were lower priced. DECISION Schleicher Community Corrections Center, Inc. (SCCC), the incumbent, protests the award of a contract to Cornell Corrections of California, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 200-256-W, issued by the Federal Bureau of Prisons for residential community corrections services. The protester argues that the agency 518418

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