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B-419347,B-419347.2,B-419347.3 1 (2021-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Crowley Government Services, Inc.; Petro Star, Inc. File: B-419347; B-419347.2; B-419347.3 Date: January 25, 2021 James Y. Boland, Esq., Christopher G. Griesedick, Esq., and Krista A. Nunez, Esq., Venable LLP, for Crowley Government Services, Inc.; and Damien C. Specht, Esq., and James A. Tucker, Esq., Morrison and Foerster, LLP, for Petro Star, Inc., protesters. Howard W. Roth, Esq., and Michael Schmidt, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, LLP, for Delta Western, LLC, an intervenor. Jacqueline Neumann, Esq., Matthew Vasquez, Esq., and Howard M. Kaufer, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests challenging agency's evaluation of price proposals and award of contracts are sustained where record shows agency's evaluation was not in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Crowley Government Services, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, and Petro Star, Inc., of Anchorage, Alaska, protest the award of various contracts under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE605-20-R-0222, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency to acquire various petroleum products. Both protesters argue that the agency misevaluated prices in connection with the awarded contracts. We sustain the protests. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplates the award of multiple fixed-price requirements type contracts on a lowest-price technically acceptable (LPTA) basis to provide petroleum products to Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies in Alaska during a 5-year ordering period. The RFP included 164 contract line item numbers (CLINs) and firms were advised that awards would be made individually on a CLIN-by-CLIN basis. RFP at 123.

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