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B-280388 1 (1998-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahvf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: General Security Services Corporation File: B-280388; B-280388.2 Date: September 25, 1998 Robert A. Boonin, Esq., Butzel Long; and James A. Hughes, Esq., Robert S. Brams, Christy G. Slade, Esq., and William E. Slade, Esq., Patton Boggs, for the protester. Gerald L. Elston, Esq., and Charles E. Coburn, Esq., U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Justice, for the agency. Valinda J. Astoria, Esq., Edgar Garcia, Esq., Joan K Fiorino, Esq., and Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., for Akal, Inc., an intervenor. Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging areas of technical evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where protester either failed to rebut agency's explanation of why downgrading was appropriate, or failed to show that downgrading based on omission of information from proposal was unreasonable. 2. Protest against adequacy of documentation for revised scoring of protester's proposal is denied where, although individual evaluator scoring sheets contain little or no explanation for scoring changes, basis for downgrading proposal is documented elsewhere in record and establishes reasonableness of downgrading. 3. Protest that awardee's final proposed price should have been found unacceptable because it improperly failed to add fringe benefit rate to holiday pay, is denied where there was no requirement for payment of fringe benefit rate for holiday pay. DECISION General Security Services Corporation (GSSC) protests the evaluation of offers, and the award of a contract to Akal, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. MS-CSC-97-R-0005, issued by the United States Marshals Service (USMS), Department of Justice, for court security services in the fifth federal circuit. We deny the protest.

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