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B-402069,B-402069.2 1 (2010-01-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O Comptroller General ,,countabiity * 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: American Security Programs, Inc. File: B-402069; B-402069.2 Date: January 15, 2010 James S. Phillips, Esq., Brian C. Caney, Esq., Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., and Kristine Kassekert, Esq., Centre Law Group, LLC, for the protester. John W. Polk, Esq., Seth C. Berenzweig, Esq., Stephanie D. Wilson, Esq., and Terrence M. O'Connor, Esq., Albo & Oblon, LLP, for Coastal International Security, Inc., the intervenor. Maria Bellizzi, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that vendor is ineligible to receive a task order under Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procurement is sustained where certain required services are outside the scope of the vendor's FSS contract. DECISION American Security Programs, Inc. (ASP), of Dulles, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Coastal International Security, Inc. (CIS), of Lorton, Virginia, by the General Services Administration (GSA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NP9700090888 for construction site security services. ASP alleges that CIS is ineligible to receive an order because it does not offer all the services required by the RFQ on its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract. We sustain the protest. The RFQ was issued under Federal Supply Schedule 84, Security Support Services, Special Item Numbers (SIN) 246-52, Professional Security/Facility Management Services; 246-54, Protective Service Occupations; and/or 246-60 2, Security Management and Support Services. The agency required construction site security sufficient to ensure that the finished facility would obtain sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) accreditation from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The services required under the RFQ included the development and