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B-280959.5 1 (1999-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajey0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Farnham Security, Inc. File: B-280959.5 Date: February 9, 1999 Christopher B. Ingram, Esq., Haas & Najarian, for the protester. Chuck Coburn, Esq., United States Marshals Service, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Evaluation was proper where, although agency applied detailed criteria not expressly stated in solicitation, there was sufficient correlation between stated factors and the detailed factors applied that prospective offerors were on notice of the evaluation criteria to be applied. DECISION Farnham Security, Inc. (FSI) protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. MS-98-R-0008, issued by the United States Marshals Service for security services at various Federal Circuits. FSI contends that the exclusion of its proposal was based on the agency's improper application of undisclosed evaluation criteria that previously had been deleted by solicitation amendment. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued June 22, 1998, contemplated the award of an indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery, time-and-materials contract for each of the judicial circuits. RFP § L-6. The RFP stated that award for each circuit would be made to the offeror whose proposal provided the best value to the government, price and other factors 'This protest concerns the Ninth Judicial Circuit.

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