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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Matter of: Wackenhut Services, Inc.
File: B-276012.2
Date: September 1, 1998
Richard J. Webber, Esq., Alison J. Micheli, Esq., and David A. Vogel, Esq., Arent Fox
Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, for the protester.
Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., Karen D. Powell, Esq., and William E. Connor, Esq.,
Petrillo & Powell, for Coastal International Security, Inc., an intervenor.
Lydia R. Kupersmith, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the
General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Agency was not required to consider depth of offerors' relevant past experience--
i.e., the number of similar past contracts--in evaluating quality of past performance
where solicitation did not provide for evaluation on this basis.
2. Agency properly attributed to offeror the experience of its teaming partner
where teaming partner was to perform [Deleted] of the contract effort.
3. Agency properly awarded to a higher-rated, higher-priced offeror where
solicitation provided for award on a best value basis, and agency reasonably
determined that technical superiority of proposal outweighed its marginally higher
price.
DECISION
Wackenhut Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Coastal International
Security, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS11P-96-MPC-0510, issued by
the General Services Administration (GSA) for security guard services at the Ronald
Reagan and International Trade Center Building in Washington, DC. The protester
takes issue with the agency's evaluation of proposals.
We deny the protest.
The RFP provided for award on a best value basis, with the combined weight of
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