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B-285127 1 (2000-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalcq0001 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. Decision Matter of: Meridian Management Corporation File: B-285127 Date: July 19, 2000 Michael A. Gordon, Esq., Holmes, Schwartz & Gordon, for the protester. Scarlett D. Grose, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency may not exclude a technically acceptable proposal from the competitive range witho ut taking into ac c o unt that pro po sal's price. 2. Solicitation for operations and maintenance services at two federal buildings and two parking facilities did not put offerors on notice that they would be required to perform specialized operations and maintenance services in laboratories housed in those buildings, given that solicitation did not in any way refer to the specialized services and offerors were not given the opportunity to visually inspect the laboratories themselves to determine whether equipment requiring specialized service was present. DECISION Meridian Management Corporation protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS05POOGAC0126, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for operations and maintenance services at two buildings and two parking facilities in Chicago. The protester contends that the agency improperly failed to consider its proposed price before deciding to exclude its proposal from the competitive range. The protester also argues that the solicitation improperly failed to apprise offerors that they would be expected to perform specialized services in agency laboratories located in one of the buildings. We sustain the protest.

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