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B-299888 1 (2007-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauhc0001 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: Accent Service Company, Inc. File: B-299888 Date: September 14, 2007 Dan Yasui, for the protester. Allison M. Grace, Esq., and Tracy M. Humphrey, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency properly concluded that agency employee had not violated procurement integrity provisions by escorting representatives of a potential competitor on a site visit, which included a brief stop at the office of the protester's on-site manager, and a limited disclosure to the visitors about the firm's incumbent contract staffing. DECISION Accent Service Company, Inc., a small business, protests the actions of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy, during a procurement under request for proposals (RFP) No. N40085-06-R-1335 for janitorial services at the Naval Support Activity in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Accent objects that its confidential proprietary information was disclosed to prospective competitors, in a breach of procurement integrity, and that the Navy has failed to take sufficient remedial measures. We deny the protest. The Navy issued the RFP on May 9, 2007, as a competitive 8(a) set-aside, seeking proposals to provide janitorial services under a combination firm-fixed and indefinite-quantity contract for a 1-year base period and four 1-year options. RFP at 44, 56. Accent is the incumbent contractor. The protest alleges that the Navy caused Accent to disclose proprietary information about its approach to performing the incumbent contract, which Accent argues will