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B-283972.2 1 (2000-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Eastco Building Services, Inc. File: B-283972.2 Date: February 10, 2000 Steven Brown for the protester. Edward K Wilson for Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc., an intervenor. Scarlett D. Grose, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Allegation that evaluation of protester's proposal under past performance factor was improper is without merit where agency conducted past performance evaluation in accordance with solicitation evaluation scheme and, contrary to protester's allegation, there is no evidence of involvement in the evaluation or award decision by agency employee protester believes is biased against it. 2. Where contemporaneous source selection documentation does not reference tradeoff between awardee's technically superior proposal and protester's lower-priced proposal, but debriefing letter from agency to protester shows agency selected awardee's proposal as the best value based on its technical superiority, despite its higher price, record supports conclusion that agency conducted tradeoff. DECISION Eastco Building Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-04P-99-LCC-0030, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) forjanitorial services in four government buildings in Tampa, Florida. The protester primarily argues that GSA improperly evaluated its proposal due to bias, and that the price/technical tradeoff was impro per. We deny the protest.

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