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B-276877 1 (1997-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafzz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Leon D. DeMatteis Construction Corporation File: B-276877 Date: July 30, 1997 Joseph R. Harbeson, Esq., and Douglas A. Cooper, Esq., Cooper & Cooper, for the protester. Scarlett D. Grose, Esq., and Emily C. Hewitt, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that technical qualifications criteria in solicitation for construction of a new federal courthouse are unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the record shows that the criteria are reasonably related to the agency's need to ensure that the contractor will have sufficient experience in all aspects of the type of complex construction that will be necessary for the project; protester's arguments focusing on the individual elements of this experience, but ignoring the value of the totality of this experience, do not show that the criteria are unreasonably restrictive. DECISION Leon D. DeMatteis Construction Corporation protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-02P-97-DTC-0010(N), issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for construction of Phase II of a new federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York. DeMatteis argues that the solicitation's technical qualifications criteria are unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. The new courthouse, one of the largest in the country, will consist of an 18-story building housing the new courthouse proper as well as a 6-story structure connecting the new courthouse to the existing courthouse on the same site. The connecting structure will contain the main building entrance and an interior atrium, enabling the two buildings to function as one complex.1 The new courthouse will 1The new courthouse will be built on the site presently occupied by the existing courthouse and a federal office building. Under Phase I of the project, being performed under a separate contract, the federal office building and a structure (continued...)

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