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B-286612 1 (2000-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalge0001 and id is 1 raw text is: . G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Professional Landscape Management Services, Inc. File: B-286612 Date: December 22, 2000 Joel S. Rubinstein, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, for the protester. J. Randolph MacPherson, Esq., Sullivan & Worcester, for Environmental Resources Group, Inc., an intervenor. Stephanie Foster, Esq., Sharon Roach, Esq., and Edith L. Toms, Esq., General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Although agency incorrectly evaluated proposals as either acceptable or unac c eptable--rather than o n a c o mparative basis--under best value evaluation scheme, and then made award based on low price, award decision was unobjectionable where contemporaneous record shows that all offerors' technical proposals were of equal merit, as confirmed by agency's post-protest scoring of offerors' past performance information. DECISION Professional Landscape Management Services, Inc. (PLMS) protests the award of a contract to Environmental Resources Group, Inc. (ERG) under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS11P00ZCD0155, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, for landscape maintenance services. PLMS asserts that the evaluation was inconsistent with the RFP and unreasonable, and that discussions were inadequate. We deny the protest. The RFP sought proposals for all labor, materials, tools, equipment, and services necessary for complete landscape maintenance services, including snow and ice removal, around various buildings at two Maryland sites, the Suitland Federal Center

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