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B-190445 1 (1978-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfnw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I TH COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED ETATES WASHINGTrON. 0. 0. RD4 FILE: B-190445 DATE: January 11, 1978 MATTER OF: Vintage Services, Inc. C DIGEST: 1. Bid which uncualifiedly offers to meet invitation requirements is responsive. 2. Protester's allegations that low bidder under invitation for food service attendant services (which was awarded contract on month-to-month basis pending outcoie of protest) is not meet- ing terms and conditions of solicitation and will not do so in future are matters of con- tract administration and bidder responsibility which are not for consideration by GAO. 3. Protester has not sustained allegation that disparity among bid prices may be explained by possible violations of Armed Secvices Procurement Regulation clauses relating to Clean Air and Water and Gratuities where protest.r offers no ev dence or elaboration beyond mere conjectural allegation. 4. Unsupported allegation that low bidder bid collusively with another bidder, and was not unaffiliated bidder as represented in bid is not sufficient to overcome certification of independent p--ice determination in bid. Vintage Services, Inc. (Vintage) protests the award of a contract to any firm other than itself under invita- tion for bids (IFB) F 11623-77-8-0093, issued September 9, 1977 by Scott Air Force Base, Illinois (Air Force), for food service attendant services from Nove. er 1, 1977, through September 30, 1978. Fourteen bids ranging in price from $214,358.91 to $370,075.84 were received in response to the IFB. The low bid was submitted by Lewis Management and Services Company (Lewis). Vintage submitted the 8th low bid at $271,172.30. Vintage's primary contention is that the 7 lower priced bids were nonresponsive because they failed - 1-. I I

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