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B-280805 1 (1998-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahwx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Vereinigte Geb audereinigungsgesellsc haft File: B-280805 Date: November 23, 1998 Reed L. von Maur, Esq., Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, for the protester. Maj. Susan D. Tigner, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency treated bidders unequally in reprocuring contract for custodial services is denied where record does not support protester's allegation that agency demanded that it produce bilingual management personnel immediately, but gave awardee 2 weeks to produce such personnel. 2. Repurchase need not be conducted in accordance with the terms of the original solicitation; thus, agency was not precluded from requiring a preaward demonstration of the linguistic abilities of a bidder's management personnel by the fact that such a demonstration had not been required under the original solicitation. DECISION Vereinigte Gebaudereinigungsgesellschaft (VGR) protests the Department of the Army's award of contract No. DAJA89-98-D-0016, for custodial services at the Department of Defense (DOD) elementary and high schools in Wiirzburg, Germany, to Perfekt Service GmbH (PSG). The contract was awarded to PSG as a result of a reprocurement action after the Army terminated the original contractor, Z & H Sauberkeit, Hygiene, Gesundheit GmbH, for default. VGR contends that it should have received the award because it was qualified to perform and had offered a price lower than PSG's in response to the original invitation for bids (IFB). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND IFB No. DAJA89-98-B-0017, issued on April 17, 1998, sought bids to furnish custodial services for the DOD schools in Wiirzburg for a base and 2 option years, beginning on July 1, 1998. The solicitation required the assignment of a Project Supervisor to manage the contract and a Project Leader (or Leaders) to supervise the work at

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