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B-422356 May 08, 2024 1 (2024-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqgp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                       Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                 of the United States
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                           a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: Sysco Central Texas, Inc.
File:     B-422356
Date:     May 8, 2024
Patrick K. Burns, Esq., and Jeremy Camacho, Esq., Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani,
LLP, for the protester.
Amanda Stone, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency.
April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest arguing that the agency failed to consider past performance information of
the awardee for a contract awarded after the solicitation's closing date and before
award is denied where the agency was not required to consider that information.
2. Agency's selection of a technically superior, lower-priced proposal for award is
unobjectionable where the award decision was reasonable, adequately documented,
and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
DECISION
Sysco Central Texas, Inc., of New Braunfels, Texas, protests the award of a contract to
Labatt Institutional Supply Company (d/b/a Labatt Food Service or Labatt Food Service
Corporation), of San Antonio, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE300-
20-R-0035, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for
subsistence products. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the
awardee's past performance and the award decision.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
On September 11, 2020, the agency issued the RFP for a contractor to supply
subsistence products, including food and beverage items for Department of Defense
and other federally funded customers in the Central Texas area. Agency Report (AR),

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