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B-289478 1 (2002-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Hilton Knoxville File: B-289478 Date: February 26, 2002 Phillip E. Johnson for the protester. Maj. Kateni T. Leakehe, Department of the Army, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to the evaluation of its proposal is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Contention that an agency's price/technical tradeoff decision was an abuse of discretion is denied where the record shows that the agency was aware of the differences between the proposed approaches of the awardee and the protester and reasonably concluded that the awardee's higher-priced proposal offered a better value to the government than the protester's proposal. DECISION Hilton Knoxville (HK) protests the award of a contract to Command Management Services, Inc. by the Department of the Army's Directorate of Contracting, Fort Knox, Kentucky, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT23-01-R-1016, issued to procure meals, lodging, and transportation for applicants arriving for processing at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) in Knoxville, Tennessee. HK argues that the award decision here was improper because the on-site inspection of its hotel was unreasonable, the agency failed to consider the risk associated with award to CMS, the agency is biased in favor of CMS, and the agency abused its discretion when it concluded that CMS's higher-priced proposal represented the best value to the government. We deny the protest.

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