Tidal Basin Caribe, LLC v. Junta De Subasta Dpto De La Vivienda Pr

CourtTribunal De Apelaciones De Puerto Rico/Court of Appeals of Puerto Rico
DecidedDecember 19, 2024
DocketKLRA202400608
StatusPublished

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Opinion

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL DE APELACIONES PANEL ESPECIAL

CUSTOM GROUP, LLC REVISIÓN Recurrente JUDICIAL procedente de la v. Junta de Subastas del Departamento de la Vivienda de JUNTA DE SUBASTAS DEL Puerto Rico DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; RFP Núm.: DEPARTMENTO DE LA CDBG-DRMIT- VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO RFP-2023-05 Recurrido KLRA202400607 Sobre: v. Request for proposal for program INNOVATIVE EMERGENCY management MANAGEMENT, INC.; TETRA services community energy and water TECH, INC. resilience Licitadores agraciados installations program, home BRENDA MARRERO & energy resilience ASOCIADOS GROUP, installations and PLEXOS GROUP, LLC, incentive cons. con FAMILY ENDEAVORS, INC., subprograms under CSA ARCHITECTS & the CDBG-DR CDBG-MT Puerto ENGINEERS, LLP; TIDAL Rico, Department of BASIN CARIBE, LLC Housing Licitadores no agraciados

TIDAL BASIN CARIBE, LLC Recurrente Sobre: Impugnación de v. Adjudicación de Subasta sobre JUNTA DE SUBASTAS DEL Requerimiento de DEPARTAMENTO DE LA Propuestas No. KLRA202400608 CDBG-DRMIT-RFP- VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; 2023-05 DEPARTMENTO DE LA “Program VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Management Recurrido Services related to the CEWRI-HH and v. CEWRI-DR”

INNOVATIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, INC.; TETRA TECH, INC.; CUSTOM GROUP, LLC Proponentes-seleccionados

BMA GROUP, PLEXOS GROUP, LLC, FAMILY ENDEAVORS, INC., CSA ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, LLP Proponentes

Número Identificador SEN2024 _______________ KLRA202400607 cons. con KLRA202400608 2

Panel integrado por su presidente, el juez Bermúdez Torres, el juez Adames Soto y la juez Aldebol Mora.

Aldebol Mora, Juez Ponente

SENTENCIA

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 19 de diciembre de 2024.

Comparece ante nos la parte recurrente, Custom Group, LLC

y Tidal Basin Caribe, LLC, y nos solicita la revisión y revocación del

Aviso de Adjudicación (Notice of Award) emitido y notificado por el

Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico el 9 de octubre de 2024.

Mediante el mismo, el referido organismo notificó la adjudicación del

requerimiento de propuestas a favor de Innovative Emergency

Management, Inc. y Tetra Tech, Inc.

Junto a su recurso, Tidal Basin Caribe, LLC presentó una

Moción Urgente en Auxilio de Jurisdicción, la cual declaramos Ha

Lugar mediante Resolución del 25 de noviembre de 2024.

Por los fundamentos que expondremos a continuación, se

deja sin efecto la paralización de los procedimientos y se desestiman

los presentes recursos consolidados por falta de jurisdicción.

I

El 29 de agosto de 2023, el Departamento de la Vivienda de

Puerto Rico (Departamento de la Vivienda o recurrido) publicó un

Request for Proposals No. CDBG-DRMIT-RFP-2023-05 para el

Program Management Services Under Community Development Block

Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) y el Program and Community

Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT).1 Conforme surge

de los documentos de autos, la Junta de Subastas del Departamento

de la Vivienda (Junta) recibió propuestas por BMA Group; Plexos

Group, LLC; Tetra Tech, Inc. (Tetra); Innovative Emergency

Management, Inc. (Innovative); Family Endeavors, Inc., dba

Endeavors; CSA Architects & Engineers, LLP; Custom Group, LLC

1 Apéndice del recurso KLRA202400608, págs. 16-115, 1534-1559, 1678-1840. KLRA202400607 cons. con KLRA202400608 3

(Custom o recurrente); y Tidal Basin Caribe, LLC (Tidal o

recurrente), en calidad de proponentes.2

Evaluadas las propuestas, el 6 de febrero de 2024, la Junta

emitió un Notice of Award a favor de Innovative y Tetra.3 Indicó que

los detalles de los nombres, direcciones y la información de contacto

de todos los proponentes que presentaron una propuesta en

respuesta al request for proposal se encontraban en el Exhibit II (Bid

Board Resolution), el cual, según indicó, formaba parte integral del

Notice of Award recurrido. El contenido de la referida misiva, en lo

pertinente, incluía lo siguiente:

The following proposers were deemed Not Qualified:

1. BMA Group (BMA) – The proposer was ranked as Not Qualified. BMA Group passed the submission requirements evaluation for this RFP. As a result of the evaluation performed, the Proposer received a rating of Excellent in the critical criterion of professional qualifications and the experience of the proposer to successfully perform the services required. The Proposer received a rating of Fair for the critical criteria of professional qualifications and specialized experience of the proposed key staff; and the quality of the proposed approach and its relevance to the services described in this RFP. For the important criterion of the capacity of the key staff and the ability to commit adequate time to effectively perform the services in the role assigned within the required timeframe, BMA received a Fair rating as well. Given that BMA Group received two ratings of Fair in critical criteria, it was ranked as Not Qualified as instructed in the RFP.

2. Plexos Group[,] LLC (Plexos) was ranked as Not Qualified by the EC. The Proposer passed the submission requirements evaluation for this RFP. Plexos received a rating of Excellent for the critical criteria of the professional qualifications and experience of the Proposer to successfully perform the services required, and the quality of the proposed work approach and its relevance to the services requested. In the important criterion of the capacity of the key staff and the ability to commit adequate time to effectively perform the services in the role assigned within the required timeframe, the Proposer received a rating of Excellent as well. Regarding the critical criterion of the professional qualifications and specialized experience of the proposed key staff this Proposer obtained a rating of Fair. Having Plexos obtained a rating of Fair in a critical criterion, the EC ranked Plexos as Not Qualified.

3. Family Endeavors, Inc., dba Endeavors (Family Endeavors) – was ranked as Not Qualified. Family

2 Apéndice del recurso KLRA202400608, págs. 423-1129. 3 Íd., págs. 3021-3028. KLRA202400607 cons. con KLRA202400608 4

Endeavors passed the submission requirements evaluation for this RFP. As a result of the evaluation performed, the Proposer received a rating of Fair in the first criterion of professional qualifications and the experience of the proposer to successfully perform the services required, as well as for the second criterion of professional qualifications and specialized experience of the proposed key staff. In the third criterion of quality of the proposed approach and its relevance to the services described in this RFP Family Endeavors received a rating of Fair. For the fourth criterion of capacity of the key staff and the ability to commit adequate time to effectively perform the services in the role assigned within the required timeframe, the Proposer received a rating of Good. Given that, Family Endeavors received ratings of Fair in all critical criteria, it was ranked as Not Qualified by the EC.

4. CSA Architects & Engineers, LLP (CSA) was ranked as Not Qualified. CSA passed the submission requirements evaluation for this RFP. As a result of the evaluation performed, the Proposer received a rating of Excellent in the critical criterion of professional qualifications and the experience of the proposer to successfully perform the services required. In the important criterion regarding the capacity of the key staff and the ability to commit adequate time to effectively perform the services in the role assigned within the required timeframe, the Proposer received a rating of Excellent.

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