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B-416258.2,B-416258.3 1 (2018-09-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... 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: Elevator Service, Inc. File: B-416258.2; B-416258.3 Date: September 13, 2018 Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., and Shane J. McCall, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Kevin Johnson, for JohnsonDanforth, Inc., the intervenor. Daniel J. McFeely, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Todd C. Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest allegation is dismissed where the allegation, even if true, did not constitute a basis to reject the awardee's proposal. 2. Protest allegation is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's proposal as satisfying the definitive responsibility criterion. DECISION Elevator Service, Inc. (ESI), of Grand Rapids, Michigan, protests the award of a contract to JohnsonDanforth, Inc. (JD), of Little Rock, Arkansas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C26218R0411, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for elevator maintenance services. ESI alleges that the agency should have rejected the awardee's proposal for failing to conform to material solicitation requirements, and that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's proposal as satisfying the definitive responsibility criterion. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 8, 2018, as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside, contemplated the award of a fixed-priced contract for elevator maintenance services to be performed over a 1-year base period and four 1-year option

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