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B-400145.2 1 (2008-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaop0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General c Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Ahntech-Korea Company, Ltd. File: B-400145.2 Date: August 18, 2008 Leigh T. Hansson, Esq., Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., and Steven D. Tibbets, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. Megan E. Stephens, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 that agency improperly evaluated protester's experience is denied where record shows agency properly determined that protester did not have 3 years of relevant experience, as required by solicitation, and experience of protester's parent company could not properly be considered because proposal did not establish that parent company's resources were committed to contract performance. DECISION Ahntech-Korea Company, Ltd. protests the award of a contract to Kyungil Industrial Development Co., Ltd. under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91QVN-08-R-0010, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Contracting Command Korea (CCK), for civil engineering services at several U.S. Army bases that serve the United States Forces Korea. Ahntech-Korea principally asserts that its proposal was improperly determined to be technically unacceptable based on a failure to demonstrate adequate experience. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued December 21, 2007, contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for civil engineering services, including customer support, infrastructure and facility maintenance, physical plant operations, civil engineering support, environmental protection, engineering support, and property management, at six U.S. Army locations in Korea, for a 1-month phase-in/transition period, a base year, and four 1-year option periods. RFP at 3-68. Award was to be made to the offeror submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable proposal based on consideration of three evaluation factors: technical (comprised of three subfactors--