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B-285351 1 (2000-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldd0001 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: Olympus Building Services, Inc. File: B-285351; B-285351.2 Date: August 17, 2000 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, for the protester. Mark R. Warnick, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's proposal evaluation and resulting competitive range determination were unreasonable where offerors' experience, staffing and authority standards, and management approach/resources were evaluated by the mechanical and otherwise unsupported application of undisclosed source selection plan standards, which resulted in an irrational evaluation outcome. DECISION Olympus Building Services, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS06P-99-GXC-0021, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for janitorial and related services at the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri. Olympus contends that the exclusion was the result of GSA's improperly downgrading Olympus's proposal on the basis of the mechanical application of arbitrary evaluation criteria that were not disclosed in the RFP. We sustain the protest. The solicitation, issued September 16, 1999, provides for the best value award of a fixed-price contract for a base year with four 1-year options. RFP §§ B.2, M.2.a.

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