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B-283398 1 (1999-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Ideal Electronic Security Company, Inc. File: B-283398 Date: November 10, 1999 Jennifer C. Adams, Esq., and Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., Martin & Rylander, for the protester. Andrew N. Cook, Esq., and Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for M.C. Dean, an intervenor. Lydia Kupersmith, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging past performance evaluation and resulting source selection decision is denied where, notwithstanding limited contemporaneous documentation supporting award decision, record includes post-protest explanation consistent with the available contemporaneous documentation, both of which support agency's determination that proposals were technically equal and that lowest-priced proposal therefore represented best value to the government. DECISION Ideal Electronic Security Company, Inc., the incumbent contractor, protests the award of a contract to M.C. Dean under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS11P-99- ZGC-2001, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for maintenance of security equipment at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (RRB). Ideal argues that GSA improperly failed to conduct a qualitative evaluation of past performance, as required by the RFP, and that the record therefore does not support the source selection decision. We deny the protest. The RFP, as amended, requested fixed-price offers for certain required personnel, materials, supplies and equipment, for a base and 4 option years, to maintain, support, inspect, and repair the RRB's integrated computerized security system. The

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