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B-416076 1 (2018-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadutp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date belowwassubject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. Thisredacted version has I been approved forpublic release. Matter of: EFS Ebrex SARL File: B-416076 Date: June 4, 2018 William E. Hughes, Esq., Husch Blackwell LLP, for the protester. Katherine B. McCulloch, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Michael J. Gardner, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc.; and Robert E. Korroch, Esq., William A. Wozniak, Esq., and Shayn A. Fernandez, Esq., Williams Mullen, for Food Services, Inc., the intervenors. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency applied unstated evaluation factors is sustained where agency's source selection plan established undisclosed benchmarks that a proposal must meet in order to receive a rating of acceptable or higher under the experience evaluation factor, and the agency's discussions were less than meaningful regarding those undisclosed requirements. DECISION EFS EBrex Sarl (Ebrex), of Geneva, Switzerland, protests the Defense Logistics Agency's award of a contract to Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc., of Stockton, California, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE300-16-R-0003 to provide subsistence prime vendor support for the military and other federally-funded customers in Japan, Singapore, Diego Garcia, and the Philippines (referred to as zone 1 ). 1 Ebrex asserts that the agency's evaluation and source selection decision were based on unstated evaluation factors, and that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions. 1 The solicitation sought separate proposals, and contemplated separate awards, for two areas--zone 1 and zone 2. Ebrex initially protested the award in both zones, but subsequently withdrew its protest challenging the award in zone 2. Accordingly, our discussion below relates only to the zone 1 procurement.

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