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B-311313 1 (2008-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawaa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A A Comptroller General of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of: Consolidated Engineering Services, Inc. File: B-311313 Date: June 10, 2008 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Michael D. Maloney, Esq., Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, for the protester. Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Michael A. Gordon, PLLC, for Meridian Management Corporation, an intervenor. Mark S. Ledford, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where agency's evaluation of offerors' experience relied on factors not identified in the solicitation and on distinctions between offerors' experience that were not supported by the record. 2. Protest is sustained where source selection decision was based on a flawed technical evaluation, and also considered an undisclosed evaluation criterion of transition risk in assuming that any non-incumbent contractor would likely cause mistakes in performance that would result in costs for the agency. DECISION Consolidated Engineering Services, Inc. (CES) protests the award of a contract to Meridian Management Corporation (MMC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-08-1004 by the Social Security Administration for facility management services. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of the offerors' technical proposals was unreasonable, and that the selection decision was flawed. We sustain the protest.

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