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B-280959 1 (1998-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahxj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: General Security Services Corporation File: B-280959; B-280959.4 Date: December 11, 1998 James A. Hughes, Esq., Robert S. Brains, Esq., William E. Slade, Esq., and Rodney A. Grandon, Esq., Patton Boggs, for the protester. Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., and Joan K Fiorino, Esq., Douglas & Barnhill, for Akal Security, Inc., an intervenor. Joni M. Gibson, Esq., U.S. Marshals Service, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency properly normalized pricing element of solicitation (wages of court security officers) where agency reasonably determined that security needs precluded permitting offerors to propose wages below the wages currently being paid to such personnel. DECISION General Security Services Corporation (GSSC) protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. MS-98-R-0008, issued by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Department of Justice, for court security services at eight Federal Circuits. GSSC principally argues that the RFP's price evaluation scheme unduly restricts competition. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on June 22, 1998, contemplates multiple awards (one award for each Federal Circuit) of indefinite-quantity, indefinite -delivery and time -and-material type contracts, with fixed unit prices. RFP § L-6. The RFP states that award will be made to that offeror whose proposal, conforming to the solicitation, is determined to provide the best value to the government, cost/price, technical, and past performance considered. RFP § M-1. The RFP states that technical considerations are more important than price and that past performance is less important than technical or price considerations. RFP §§ M-5, M-6.

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