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B-190445 1 (1978-01-11)

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                                     TH COMPTROLLER   GENERAL
         DECISION      .          OF  THE   UNITED ETATES
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         FILE:  B-190445               DATE:  January 11, 1978
         MATTER  OF: Vintage Services, Inc.

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         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


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