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B-274406 1 (1996-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaelz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Speedy Food Service, Inc. File: B-274406 Date: December 9, 1996 Jacqueline Z. Nikodym, Esq., and Theodore M. Bailey, Esq., for the protester. William T. Welch, Esq., and John R. Tolle, Esq., Barton, Mountain & Tolle, for Cantu Services, Inc., an intervenor. Maj. Robert L. Duecaster and Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to conduct sufficiently specific discussions with the protester regarding its staffing is denied where the record shows that the discussion questions asked conveyed the agency's concerns about staffing which reasonably could be discerned from the protester's initial proposal, and the specific area of concern only became evident upon review of the protester's best and final offer (BAFO) and post-BAFO clarification of proposed staffing; agencies are not required to notify offerors of deficiencies remaining in their proposals or to conduct successive rounds of discussions until such deficiencies are removed. DECISION Speedy Food Service, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Cantu Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT39-95-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Army to obtain food services at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Speedy argues that the Army conducted inadequate discussions with it and improperly selected the awardee's slightly higher-priced proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation describes Fort Sill's requirements for food services as falling into two categories, one of which is at issue here. Management and food production (M&FP) services include the preparation and serving of food and associated administrative tasks. The solicitation accounted for those dining facilities requiring M&FP services in one contract line item (CLIN), which was divided into several sub-CLINs to account for a varying range in the average number of meals served. 10451122

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