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B-283685 1 (1999-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajnb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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. Decision Matter of: The Moreland Corporation File: B-283685 Date: December 17, 1999 C. Patrick Stoll, Esq., Herrig & Vogt, for the protester. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., and Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that in best value procurement agency improperly gave evaluation credit for aspects of awardee's proposal that exceeded the solicitation's minimum requirements is denied; where detailed technical proposals are sought and technical evaluation criteria are used to enable the agency to make comparative judgments about the relative merits of competing proposals, qualitative distinctions among the technical proposals are appropriately made under the various evaluation factors, and there is no basis to object to the recognition of advantageous features of a proposal that are clearly related to the stated evaluation factors. DECISION The Moreland Corporation protests the award of a contract to Heidorn & Heidorn under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. 573-184-002-99, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the lease of a building to be constructed for use as a VA outpatient clinic in Daytona Beach, Florida. We deny the protest. The SFO, issued on December 4, 1998, contemplated the award of a lease for a term of 15 years with one 5-year renewal option. The SFO sought offers to construct a clinic building with 44,500 occupiable square feet on a pre-selected site, and to lease the facility to the VA. The lease was also to include certain services, such as exterior maintenance, trash removal, and window washing. The SFO provided concept drawings of the site plan and floor plan to be followed.

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