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B-281497 1 (1999-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajha0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Ciaschi Rentals, Inc. File: B-281497 Date: February 17, 1999 Edward C. Hooks, Esq., Harris, Beach & Wilcox, for the protester. Lynn W. Flanagan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably decided to take corrective action and resolicit for lease of office space to ensure a fair and impartial competition, where agency review of proposed award of lease disclosed that source selection was not documented and was based on unsupported evaluation conclusions, and where pricing information and other source sensitive information apparently had been disclosed to several offerors. DECISION Ciaschi Rentals, Inc. protests the cancellation of a solicitation for offers (SFO), issued by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), for the purpose of obtaining a 5-year lease for 6665 square feet of office space in Ithaca, New York, to serve as the new USDA Service Center for Tompkins, Schuyler, Chemung, and Seneca counties. We deny the protest. The SFO was issued by the FSA's Tompkins/Schuyler County Food and Agriculture Council (local FAC), which was also responsible for evaluating the offers received and awarding the lease, with the concurrence of the New York State FAC (state FAC). The local FAC was comprised of members of FSA and other locally based agencies which would occupy the leased office space. USDA Memorandum of Law at 1-2. Lease offers were to be evaluated on the basis of cost (the annual price per square foot) and technical merit (in accordance--after the space was determined to be in conformity with SFO requirements--with nine evaluation factors listed in descending order of importance). Price and technical merit were each to constitute 50 percent of the total evaluation score awarded. SFO at 8. After the successful offeror was determined on the basis of the cost and technical merit scoring, award was to be made upon written notification, or execution of the lease by the County Executive Director of the local FAC. Id. at 9.

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