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B-289707 1 (2002-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Bannum, Inc. File: B-289707 Date: March 14, 2002 Nancy M. Camardo, Esq., Joseph A. Camardo Law Office, for the protester. John J. LoCurto, Esq., and William D. Robinson, Esq., Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that urgent need for halfway-house services was a result of lack of agency advance planning is denied where agency engaged in planning by attempting to procure the required services 18 months ago but plans were disrupted and failed to achieve the expected results. DECISION Bannum, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 200-0732-MA (RFP 0732), issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for halfway-house services in Nashville, Tennessee. BOP conducted the procurement under the limited competition provision of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 6.302-2 (unusual and compelling urgency). Bannum contends that the limited competition was improper because the agency's urgent and compelling need for these services was due to a lack of advance planning. We deny the protest. BOP initially solicited this requirement (for a 2-year base period with 3 option years) on a competitive basis, under RFP No. 200-0610-MA (RFP 0610), issued on August 1, 2000, with performance to start September 1, 2001. Agency Report (AR) at 2. Three offers were received and evaluated. Because negotiations were prolonged, the agency extended the contract of Keeton Corrections, Inc. (the incumbent); it thereafter made award to Keeton on November 15, with performance to begin March 1, 2002. Bannum and the other disappointed offeror, Dismas Charities, Inc., protested the award. In response, on December 7, 2001, the agency took corrective

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