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B-400240,B-400240.2 1 (2008-09-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadapl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General X, MAccountability * 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: Wackenhut Services, Inc. File: B-400240; B-400240.2 Date: September 10, 2008 Richard J. Webber, Esq., Lisa K. Miller, Esq., and Kevin R. Pinkney, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for the protester. Anissa N. Parekh, Esq., and Anthony H. Anikeeff, Esq., Bracewell and Giuliani LLP, for Coastal International Security, Inc., an intervenor. Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., and Amber M. Hufft, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging source selection official's determination that protester's and awardee's proposals were essentially equal, notwithstanding the protester's greater number of evaluated significant strengths, is denied where the technical evaluation and source selection decision were based upon the reasonable qualitative findings underlying the offerors' significant strengths as opposed to the mere difference in number of significant strengths. DECISION Wackenhut Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Coastal International Security, Inc. under request for proposals No. NNX077040R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the provision of agency-wide protective services. Wackenhut challenges NASA's technical evaluation and source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 14, 2007, NASA issued the RFP with the intention of awarding a single agency-wide fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for protective services, consolidating individual contracts for protective services currently performed at 14 separate NASA locations across the United States. The

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