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B-215692 1 (1984-10-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlzi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECIBION -OF THE UNITED STATUS WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 PILE: B-215692 DATE: October 24, 1984 MATTER OF: Consolidated Food Management Co. DIGEST: 1. Complaint that grantee failed to award a food management services contract to the firm offering the lowest management fee has no merit where the solicitation requested information regarding other cost factors and provided for the evaluation of such factors and possible negotiation, and thus did not contemplate that award would be based on management fee alone. 2. Complaint that grantee's procurement of food management services should have based award on low proposed management fee instead of on the criteria identified in the solicitation is untimely where filed after the time set for receipt of proposals. Consolidated Food Management Co. (CFM) complains that Monroe School District No. 103, Monroe, Washington failed to award it a contract to provide food management services for the district. The school district receives funds for its lunch program from the Department of Agriculture under the National School Lunch Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. SS 1751-1769(c) (1982). CFM contends that the solicitation provided that award would be based on the lowest offered management fee, and points out that it proposed the lowest such fee. CFM complains that the school district evaluated a host of other factors in deciding to award another offeror the contract. We deny the complaint in part and dismiss it in part. The solicitation clearly did not contemplate award based on the lowest offered management fee. In addition to requiring offers of a management fee, the solicita- tion required offerors to estimate their personnel and materials costs, and also provided for consideration of the school district's total food costs and income from

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