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B-285343.2 1 (2000-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E 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. Decision Matter of: Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc. File: B-285343.2; B-285343.3 Date: October 10, 2000 Robert G. Fryling, Esq., and Edward J. Hoffman, Esq., Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, for the protester. Robert J. McCall, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that its proposal was improperly excluded from the competitive range is denied where the decision to exclude the proposal from further consideration was consistent with applicable regulations, and where the protester fails to show that the evaluation--upon which the decision to exclude the proposal was based--was unreasonable or inconsistent with the stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. GS-03P-00-DXC-0001, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for facilities engineering maintenance services for six federal buildings in the Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia areas. Wilson argues that its exclusion from the competitive range was improper because GSA did not follow the competitive range procedures identified in its source selection plan. It also argues that the evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable due to alleged discrepancies in the scores assigned by one of the evaluators, and due to the agency's erroneous conclusion that its proposal was weak when, in Wilson's view, the alleged weaknesses were only minor informational deficiencies. We deny the protest. The GSA issued this solicitation via its Electronic Posting System on March 14, 2000, and anticipated award of a fixed-price 1-year contract followed by one 2-year option, and three 3-year options, for a total performance period of 12 years. SFO §§ F.2, 4. The SFO advised potential offerors that GSA would select the offeror whose

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