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B-409872.3,B-409872.4,B-409872.5 1 (2015-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrlm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has ......b.e.....n...a.Lq. ..r.o..v..e..d. Lo.r..p..u.bj~ ..e.e... ................................................ Matter of: Raymond Express International, LLC File: B-409872.3; B-409872.4; B-409872.5 Date: September 11, 2015 John E. Jensen, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Travis L. Mullaney, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Michael A. Gordon, Esq., Michael A. Gordon PLLC, for MPG West, LLC, and David J. Ginsberg, Esq., and Robert J. Sneckenberg, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for International Distributors, Inc., the intervenors. Ralph J. Tremaglio, III, Esq., and Helen J.S. White, Esq., Defense Commissary Agency, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that award was improper because award document incorrectly lists awardee's name and address is denied where award document correctly lists awardee's commercial and government entity code and data universal numbering system number, and where record shows identity of awardee is sufficiently clear to contractually bind the firm. 2. Protest against agency's evaluation of unit pricing is denied where record includes contemporaneous data to show agency error did not prejudice protester. DECISION Raymond Express International, LLC, of Los Angeles, California, protests the award of contracts to MPG West, LLC (MPG), of La Quinta, California, and International Distributors, Inc. (IDI), of Barrigada, Guam, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HDEC09-14-R-0002, issued by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) for fresh fruit and vegetables (FF&V) for commissary stores in South Korea, Japan (to include Okinawa), and Guam. Raymond alleges that the award to MPG was improper because it was made to an entity that does not legally exist. Raymond also alleges that the agency's evaluation of MPG's and IDl's proposals was unreasonable.

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