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B-290726 1 (2002-09-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogy0001 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: MVM, Inc. File: B-290726; B-290726.2; B-290727; B-290727.2 Date: September 23, 2002 James S. Phillips, Esq., Centre Law Group, LLC, for the protester. Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., Barnhill & Assocs., for BNCI/AKAL, the intervenor. Elizabeth Gaffin, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Experience of joint venture partners can be considered in evaluating the experience of the joint venture. 2. Protests that the agency misevaluated the competing offerors' technical proposals are denied where the record shows that the evaluations were reasonable; the protester's disagreement with the evaluations is not a legal basis to overturn the evaluations. 3. Price evaluation under solicitation for a fixed-price contract is unobjectionable where the agency's analysis consisted of considering the level of competition and a comparison of the prices of the competitive range offerors. DECISION MVM, Inc. protests the awards of two contracts to BNCI/AKAL, a joint venture, under request for proposals (RFP) Nos. ACL-0-R-0004 and ACL-0-R-0005, issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Department of Justice, for unarmed guard services at INS's service processing centers. MVM challenges the technical and price evaluations. We deny the protests. The largely identical RFPs, issued April 4, 2001, were to obtain unarmed guard services for the INS's El Centro Service Processing Center, California (-0004) and Florence Service Processing Center, Arizona (-0005). The RFPs contemplated the award of fixed-price requirements contracts for a base year with four 1-year options.

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