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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.
Decision
Matter of: OneSource Energy Services, hie.
File: B-283445
Date: November 19, 1999
Kenneth D. Brody, Esq., David, Brody & Dondershine, for the protester.
J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., Sullivan & Worcester, for Park Tower Management
Ltd., the intervenor.
Scarlett D. Grose, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Evaluation of protester's past performance is unreasonable where it is based upon
inaccurate information and improperly considered the protester's legitimate exercise
of rights under its contract to be evidence of negative past performance.
2. Agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's staffing as unacceptable based
upon mechanical reliance on an undisclosed government minimum staffing estimate
where the protester proposed [DELETED] fewer than the agency's estimate and
supplemented this staffing level with [DELETED] positions, and where there is no
evidence that the agency considered the protester's technical approach.
DECISION
OneSource Energy Services, Inc.! protests the award of a contract to Park Tower
Management Ltd. under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-02P-97-CTC-0207, issued
by the General Services Administration (GSA), for mechanical operations and
maintenance services at two buildings in New York, New York. OneSource
contends that GSA improperly evaluated its past performance and proposed staffing,
and that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions with the firm.
'During this procurement, OneSource changed its name from ISS Energy Services,
Inc. Protest at 1 n.2.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptajmi0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)