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B-406780,B-406836 1 (2012-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadozo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Asiel Enterprises, Inc. File: B-406780; B-406836 Date: August 28, 2012 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for the protester. W. Michael Rose, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging Air Force's use of a Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) to provide mission essential food services is sustained where the Air Force transferred the mission essential food service requirements to the NAFI on a noncompetitive basis and failed to otherwise justify the NAFI's provision of this requirement on a sole-source basis; 10 U.S.C. § 2492 (2006) does not provide authority for the Air Force to transfer the provision of mission essential food service requirements to a NAFI. DECISION Asiel Enterprises, Inc., of Corpus Christi, Texas, protests the decision by the Department of the Air Force to acquire essential messing services at Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), in Louisiana, and at Dyess AFB, in Texas, from the Air Force Mission Essential Feeding Fund (AFMEFF), an Air Force Supplemental Mission Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI), on a sole-source basis, rather than holding a competition. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND This protest concerns the Air Force's Food Transformation Initiative (FTI), a program designed to fundamentally change the way in which the Air Force obtains mission essential food services and operates non-mission essential food services provided within the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) system. Until the

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