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B-405107.3 1 (2011-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadokw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: APEX-MBM, JV File: B-405107.3 Date: October 3, 2011 Ronald Shaw, Esq., for the protester. Cpt. Elizabeth Kadlub, Department of the Army, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency used unstated evaluation criteria when it rejected protester's proposal for failure to propose site-specific staff deployments and supplies and equipment is sustained where the solicitation did not require, and its general instructions and 15-page limitation for submissions did not suggest, that offerors propose staff deployments or supplies and equipment, and instead requires such details to be coordinated with, and approved by, the agency after contract award. DECISION APEX-MBM, JV, of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Wilson Technologies, Inc., of Silver Spring, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 YTZ-1 1 -R-0033 issued by the Department of the Army for hospital housekeeping services.1 We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside under the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, provided for the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for hospital 1 The protester is an approved section 8(a) joint venture between Apex Limited, Inc., and Main Building Maintenance, Inc. (MBM). MBM is the incumbent contractor for these services. Protest at 17.