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B-407575.6 1 (2014-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqsd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO ~Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L ................................................................................................................. Bahrain Maritime & Mercantile International BSC B-407575.6 July 29, 2014 Thomas P. McLish, Esq., Robert K. Huffman, Esq., Joseph Whitehead, Esq., and Julia Lippman, Esq., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, for the protester. Elizabeth Amato, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, 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 objecting to agency's selection of a lower-rated, lower-priced proposal for award is denied where agency reasonably decided that technical advantages associated with protester's higher-rated, higher-priced proposal were not worth the price premium. DECISION Bahrain Maritime & Mercantile International BSC (BMMI), of the Kingdom of Bahrain, protests the award of a contract for full line food distribution for Southwest Asia, Zone 1 to Ocean Fair International Ship Chandleing, LLC (OFI), of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM300-1 1 -R-0005, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The protester argues that the agency's best value tradeoff decision was flawed. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This procurement has a lengthy history. The RFP, which contemplated the award of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity prime vendor contracts to provide food and beverages to the military and other federally funded customers in each of two

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