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B-279565.5 1 (1999-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajek0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller 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: Consolidated Engineering Services, Inc File: B-279565.5 Date: March 19, 1999 Thomas J. Madden, Esq., Jerome S. Gabig, Jr., Esq., and Johana A. Reed, Esq., Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, for the protester. Jacob B. Pompan, Esq., Gerald H. Werfel, Esq., and John P. Walsh, Esq., Pompan, Murray, Ruffner & Werfel, for Halifax Technical Services, Inc., an intervenor. Richard A. Marchese, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, 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 1. Protest that agency failed to give evaluation credit for specific proposed beneficial features of protester's proposal--such as availability of off-site corporate resources and corporate buying power--when evaluating proposals for commercial facilities management services, is denied where agency reasonably determined that features were unlikely to contribute significantly to satisfying agency's stated needs. 2. Protest that discussions were not meaningful because agency failed to point out excesses in protester's technical proposal is denied where claimed beneficial features in fact were not excesses, but rather (1) were considered by the agency to be desirable, (2) were simply protester's approach to complying with the solicitation requirements, or (3) did not render the proposal unacceptable, result in a significant reduction in score, or result in an unreasonable, grossly excessive price. DECISION Consolidated Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI) protests the Department of Housing & Urban Development's (HUD) reevaluation of proposals undertaken in response to our decision in Consolidated Eng'g Servs., Inc., B-279565.2, B-279565.3, June 26, 1998, 99-1 CPD ___. In that decision, we sustained CESI's protest against the award of a contract to Halifax Technical Services, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. DU100C000018529, for commercial facilities management services with respect to the HUD headquarters building in Washington, D.C. CESI argues that HUD's new determination that Halifax's proposal offered the best value to the government was based on an unreasonable evaluation.

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