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Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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: SWR, Inc.
File: B-284710.2; B-284710.3
Date: November 15, 2000
Benjamin M. Bowden, Esq., Albrittons, Clifton, Alverson & Moody, for the protester.
Julius Rothlein, Esq., Theresa M. Young, Esq., and Rachel B. Thompson, Esq.,
United States Marine Corps, for the agency.
Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that the agency unreasonably concluded that the protester's proposal was
unacceptable under the management oversight factor and would not receive further
consideration is denied where the record shows that the decision to eliminate the
protester's proposal was reasonably based on the protester's failure to meet an
explicit solicitation management requirement.
DECISION
SWR, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Starlight Corporation under request
for proposals (RFP) No. M00681-99-R-0010, issued by the Marine Corps Base at
Camp Pendleton for aircraft washing. SWR principally contends that the agency
unreasonably excluded its proposal from the competition.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued on August 12, 1999 as a total small business set-aside, contemplated
the award of a fixed-price contract to provide commercial wash services for aircraft
and mobile facilities at Marine Corps Air Stations in California and Arizona. RFP
§ A.2.1.0. The RFP was subsequently amended three times. Amendment No. 3
replaced the original statement of work (SOW) with a revised SOW that reflected
performance-based standards. Agency Report (AR) at 1. As relevant here, the
revised RFP SOW under Management Responsibilities required that [t]he
contractor shall provide a Project Manager who shall be responsible for the
performance of the work. The Project Manager... shall.., have full authority to act
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