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B-299605.2 1 (2007-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaufu0001 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: Financial & Realty Services, LLC File: B-299605.2 Date: August 9, 2007 Shelton H. Skolnick, Esq., Skolnick & Leishman, P.C., for the protester. Jonathan S. Baker, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of proposals and source selection decision is denied where record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION Financial & Realty Services, LLC (FRS) protests the evaluation of its proposal and award to Apex Logistics, LLC under request for proposals (RFP) No. PR-HQ-07- 10196, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for warehouse operations and labor services. FRS contends that its proposal should have been rated higher technically and should have been selected for award in light of its lower proposed price. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on February 1, 2007 as a small business set-aside, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with fixed-price labor rates, for a base year plus four 1-year option periods. RFP B.1, L.2. Award was to be made to the offeror that submitted the proposal deemed most advantageous to the government considering five equally weighted technical evaluation factors (technical experience and approach, management approach, past performance, personnel, and corporate experience) and price (which was approximately equal in importance to the technical factors combined). Id. M.3. Offerors were advised that proposals would be evaluated on the completeness and quality of the information they provided, and that it was the responsibility of each offeror to demonstrate its qualifications in terms of experience, capability, and proposed approaches to meet all of the requirements of the statement of work (SOW). Id. For

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