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B-282456 1 (1999-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajjw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Universal Building Maintenance, hie. File: B-282456 Date: July 15, 1999 Christopher M. Wawack, Esq., Joseph A. Camardo, Jr. Law Office, for the protester. John M. Hewins, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Even under simplified acquisition procedures, award decision is not reasonable where the record does not provide any documentation or explanation which supports the price/technical tradeoff, and the award determination appears to be based entirely on a comparison of total technical point scores without consideration of protester's lower technically scored, but low priced proposal. 2. Agency improperly attributed past performance of parent company or its other subsidiaries to awardee where record does not establish that parent company or subsidiaries will be involved in the performance of the protested contract. DECISION Universal Building Maintenance, Inc. (UBMI) protests the General Services Administration's (GSA) award of a fixed-price contract to Service Star USA, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-08P-99-JBC-0006, for custodial services at the New Customs House in Denver, Colorado. UBMI principally contends that its proposal, as well as the awardee's proposal, was improperly evaluated, and that the agency's selection decision was unreasonable. We sustain the protest. The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside, contemplated the use of commercial item procedures. This requirement also used simplified acquisition procedures as authorized by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5. This subpart authorizes as a test program the use of simplified procedures for the acquisition of

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