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B-295836 1 (2005-04-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Hospital Klean of Texas, Inc. File: B-295836; B-295836.2 Date: April 18, 2005 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., and Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, for the protester. Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Thompson Coburn, for Integrity Management Services, Inc., the intervenor. Lt. Col. Joseph C. Fetterman and Maj. Frank A. March, Department of the Army, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly considered late proposal revision because agency action was paramount cause of late delivery of the revision and acceptance would not compromise the integrity of the competitive process, where agency extended the closing date for receipt of proposals to Saturday (not a business day of agency) from Friday after issuing a material amendment on Thursday; a commercial carrier unsuccessfully attempted delivery of the proposal revision on Saturday, but the agency's doors were locked and the agency had not posted delivery instructions for that day to advise that agency personnel were on-site to accept deliveries; and the proposal revision was delivered to agency by commercial carrier on Monday, the next business day. 2. Agency's decision in a best value negotiated procurement selecting for award a higher-priced proposal that offered a superior quality control program was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Hospital Klean of Texas, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Integrity Management Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81K04-04-R- 0009, issued by the Department of the Army for hospital housekeeping services at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The RFP contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, fixed unit-price contract for a base period with 4 option years.

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