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B-411756,B-411756.2 1 (2015-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Coastal International Security, Inc. File: B-411756, B-411756.2 Date: October 19, 2015 Robert K. Tompkins, Esq., Kelly A. Krystyniak, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. William W. Goodrich, Jr., Esq., Judith B. Kassel, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., and Richard J. Webber, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for the intervenor. Timothy Lorenzi, Esq., and Denise A. McLane, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where a latent ambiguity concerning mandatory wage rates in a collective bargaining agreement incorporated into the solicitation prevented the offerors from competing intelligently and on a relatively equal basis, and where this latent ambiguity affected the agency's price realism analysis. Protest is also sustained where the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the awardee's technical proposal. 2. Protest is denied where the agency's exchanges with the awardee, as part of the responsibility evaluation, did not constitute discussions. DECISION Coastal International Security, Inc., of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to SecuriGuard Incorporated (SGI), of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals No. HSHQEC-1 5-R-00003 (RFP), by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service, for the provision of armed security services in the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the offerors' proposed prices and the awardee's technical proposal, and that these errors in turn rendered the award decision unreasonable. We sustain the protest.

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