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B-271629.3 1 (1996-07-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaefh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Triple P Services, Inc. File: B-271629.3 Date: July 22, 1996 F. D. Bowden for the protester. Col. Nicholas P. Retson and Capt. Philip T. McCaffrey, Department of the Army, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Provision announcing agency's intent to perform a cost realism analysis in a request for proposals (RFP) for a fixed-price contract is unobjectionable where the RFP states that the analysis is for the limited purpose of aiding the agency in measuring the offerors' understanding of the RFP's technical requirements, and RFP includes as part of the evaluation of technical proposals an assessment of the offerors' understanding of the RFP's technical requirements. 2. Protest that solicitation is ambiguous with respect to the agency's intent to conduct discussions with offerors is denied where protester's interpretation of solicitation is unreasonable and contrary to applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation provision relating to the award of contracts without discussions. 3. Protest that solicitation requires information in unnecessary detail and provides the incumbent with an unfair competitive advantage is denied where required information is reasonably available to non-incumbent offerors. DECISION Triple P Services, Inc. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT1O-95-R-0010, issued by the Department of the Army for operation of 23 dining facilities located at Fort Benning and Camp Merril, Georgia, and Camp Rudder, Florida. The protester contends that the RFP's price evaluation provision is defective, and that the RFP is ambiguous with respect to the agency's intent to conduct discussions. Triple P also maintains that the information the RFP requires offerors to include in their proposals gives the incumbent an unfair competitive advantage. We deny the protest. 1251722

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