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B-271757 1 (1996-07-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaefw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Halse Enterprises File: B-271757 Date: July 22, 1996 Kristie Kirby for the protester. Allen W. Smith, Department of Agriculture, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly awarded contract to furnish office space to firm that failed to offer cleaning and snow and ice removal services as required by the solicitation is denied where the agency included a cost factor for the services in the evaluated cost of the awardee's proposal, and retained protester's proposal in the competitive range notwithstanding several deficiencies; by disregarding deficiencies in both proposals, agency treated both offerors equally. DECISION Halse Enterprises protests the award of a contract to Wiggin Construction under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. R1-96-2, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to lease office, shop, storage and wareyard space in Sheridan, Montana. Halse, the incumbent contractor, argues that Wiggin failed to offer cleaning and snow and ice removal services as required by the solicitation, and that its offer therefore could not be accepted for award. We deny the protest. As amended, the solicitation requested offers to enter into a 10-year lease, with two 5-year option periods, for 2,200 square feet of office space in compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG), 1,875 square feet of warehouse, garage and pesticide storage space, and 6,000 square feet of secured, fenced and paved wareyard space in Sheridan. The SFO required the lessor to furnish: (1) designated off-street visitor parking for five vehicles, including one space sized and designated for handicapped parking and one pull-through space of sufficient size to accommodate recreation vehicles and truck/trailer combinations and permit ingress/egress without backing up; (2) janitorial services and supplies; and (3) snow and ice removal services. The solicitation generally provided for award to be made to the offeror whose technically acceptable proposal offered the 445722

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