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B-299369 1 (2007-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AMS Group File: B-299369 Date: April 12, 2007 Leo Reijnders for the protester. Jennifer L. Longmeyer-Wood, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for security guard services contains inconsistent terms regarding required training is denied where solicitation read as a whole provides no support for protester's general allegations of impropriety or its allegation that it could not prepare a proposal in response to the solicitation. DECISION AMS Group protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. PIADC-07-01, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for security guard services at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. AlMS contends that the solicitation contains inconsistent training provisions which prevented the preparation of its proposal. AMS primarily contends that a chart in the RFP that summarizes some training requirements omits the hours for additional training requirements called for in the RFP, such as government- provided basic training, baton training, and chemical agent spray training. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside on December 6, 2006, contemplates the award of a fixed-price contract for security guard services for a base year and four 1-year option periods. RFP at 1-3. The contractor is responsible for the provision of personnel and equipment to meet the agency's requirements, including the training of security guards. Id. at 15. The RFP's training requirements are primarily set out in