About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-285351.3 1 (2001-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamli0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: Olympus Building Services, Inc. File: B-285351.3 Date: May 31, 2001 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal & Ganister, for the protester. Mark E. Warnick, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging several aspects of evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where agency reasonably downgraded protester's proposed personnel training program; protest regarding remaining evaluation areas is academic, since awardee would remain in line for award even if protester's proposal were awarded the maximum points possible under each of those areas. DECISION Olympus Building Services, Inc. protests the evaluation of its revised proposal, and the award of a contract to Mitch Murch's Maintenance Management Company (MMMM) under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS06P-99-GXC-0021, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for janitorial and related services at the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri. Olympus principally maintains that the agency did not properly evaluate its proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation, initially issued on September 16, 1999, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base year, with four 1-year options. Based on the evaluation, Olympus's proposal was eliminated from the competitive range. Olympus challenged the evaluation of its proposal in a protest to our Office. In our decision Olympus Bldg. Servs., Inc., B-285351, B-285351.2, Aug. 17, 2000, 2000 CPD 178, we sustained the protest, finding that GSA improperly had applied undisclosed standards in evaluating proposals. We recommended that the agency amend the solicitation to provide a rational and reasonably disclosed evaluation scheme, request and evaluate revised proposals and make a new source selection decision.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most