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B-400240.3,B-400240.4,B-400240.5 1 (2009-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadazw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller 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: Coastal International Security, Inc. File: B-400240.3; B-400240.4; B-400240.5 Date: September 24, 2009 Seth C. Berenzweig, Esq., John W. Polk, Esq., Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., and Stephanie D. Wilson, Esq., Albo & Oblon, LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Webber, Esq., Lisa K. Miller, Esq., and Kevin R. Pinkney, Esq., Arent Fox, LLP, for Wackenhut Services, Inc., an intervenor. Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., and Karen M. Reilley, 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 1. Protest challenging evaluation of awardee's perceived overstaffing of requirement is denied where record shows that agency reasonably determined that the weakness did not reflect awardee's lack of understanding of solicitation requirements and that consideration of the overstaffing, which was reflected in the awardee's higher price, properly was addressed in the context of the price/technical trade-off decision. 2. Protest that source selection authority improperly double-counted awardee's strength under past performance factor for meeting its small business subcontracting goals when evaluating awardee's proposal under a separate technical subfactor regarding proposed small business participation is denied where record shows that source selection official's analysis was done in the context of identifying award discriminators and was based on the logical connection between the small business participation subfactor, which considered small business goals proposed by offerors, and awardee's history of actually meeting its small business goals, as identified under the past performance factor. DECISION Coastal International Security, Inc. of Lorton, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Wackenhut Services, Inc. of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, under request for proposals No. NNX077040R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for agency-wide protective services. Coastal challenges NASA's technical evaluation and source selection decision.

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