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B-271075 1 (1996-05-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaect0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Bannum, Inc. File: B-271075; B-271076; B-271117 Date: May 22, 1996 Kenneth A. Guckenberger, Esq., Rahdert & Anderson, P.A., for the protester. Elizabeth A. Nagy, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Christine Davis, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency reasonably excluded protester's proposals from the competitive range under three solicitations, where the proposals essentially paraphrased the statement of work requirements and did not demonstrate whether the protester independently understood those requirements. DECISION Bannum, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposals from the competitive range under three requests for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for the operation of halfway houses for male and female federal offenders in Knoxville, Tennessee (RFP No. 200-295-MA or Knoxville RFP), Nashville, Tennessee (RFP No. 200-297-MA or Nashville RFP), and The Bronx, New York region (200-296-NE or Bronx RFP). We deny the protests. Each of the subject RFPs requested offers on a firm, fixed-price basis for estimated requirements for a 2-year base period with three 1-year options. The contractor under each RFP was to furnish the necessary facilities, equipment, and personnel to provide for the safekeeping and program needs of federal offenders ordered to be detained at the particular halfway house. Offerors were to propose a facility to serve as the halfway house, which would satisfy the requirements stated in the particular RFP statement of work (SOW). Offerors were to substantiate their right to use the proposed facility through deeds, leases, bills of sale, options to lease, options to buy, contingency leases or contingency deeds. Estimated requirements varied between the RFPs; for example, requirements under the Bronx RFP were nearly double those under the Knoxville RFP. Also, the Bronx RFP required the contractor to operate a type of halfway house known as a 210514

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