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B-292865.4 1 (2004-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapij0001 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 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: Ecompex, Inc. File: B-292865.4; B-292865.5; B-292865.6 Date: June 18, 2004 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., and William Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon, Hildebrant & Tolle, for the protester. Seth Binstock, Esq., and Catherine G. Powers, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Peter Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Allegation that agency unreasonably determined that protester lacked experience sufficiently similar to the work under the solicitation to qualify for award is denied where contract sought file maintenance services for a facility containing more than 4 million folders, and largest facility protester had maintained contained 125,000 folders; fact that proposed subcontractors possessed additional experience did not render agency's determination unreasonable, since solicitation required that offeror have sufficient experience of its own. 2. Agency reasonably attributed experience of affiliated companies to awardee where proposal demonstrated a significant nexus to the affiliates, including the proposed use of affiliates' experienced employees as key personnel, and statement that parent company would fully support the contract and that its financial resources would be available to awardee. 3. Allegation that agency improperly concluded that awardee would comply with solicitation's limitation on subcontracting is denied where awardee's proposal did not take express exception to the limitation, and firm assured agency that it understood and would comply with requirement. DECISION Ecompex, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Ahtna Enterprises Corporation (AEC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-03-0523, issued as a section 8(a) set-aside by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for clerical

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