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B-290482 1 (2002-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaofs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability 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: Hot Shot Express, Inc. File: B-290482 Date: August 2, 2002 Judy W. Royals, for the protester. Jesse W. Rigby, Esq., Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse, for Crown Support Services, Inc., an intervenor. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Merilee D. Rosenberg, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where offeror's proposal indicated that it was part of a family of wholly-owned subsidiaries and closely-held affiliates with interlocking officers and boards of directors, and that the parent company would have significant involvement in the proposed effort, agency could properly attribute the past performance of the family of companies to the offeror. DECISION Hot Shot Express, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Crown Support Services, Inc. (CSS), under Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) solicitation No. ALM 0205-1, for laundry transport services. Hot Shot principally asserts that CSS was not eligible for award. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued on February 8, 2002, provided for award of a fixed-price contract for an approximately 6-month base period, with 2 option years, for transporting laundry between various VA medical centers (including those in Jackson and Gulfport, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mountain Home, Tennessee; and Salisbury, North Carolina) and the Naval Hospital and Dental Clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Award was to be made to the responsible small business offeror whose conforming proposal was most advantageous to the government. The solicitation provided for proposals to be evaluated based on three evaluation factors:

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