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B-276111.4 1 (1997-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Consolidated Services, Inc. File: B-276111.4 Date: December 29, 1997 Jesse W. Rigby, Esq., Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond, Stackhouse & Stone, for the protester. Joan K Fiorino, Esq., and Donald E. Barnhill, Esq., East & Barnhill, for American Service Contractors, an intervenor. Maj. Philip T. McCaffrey, Department of the Army, for the agency. Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq. and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where request for proposals stated that cost realism analysis would be performed to aid in evaluating offerors' understanding of requirements under fixed-price contract, agency reasonably concluded that awardee's price was realistic, and did not evidence lack of understanding, based on finding that adequate price competition existed, and that awardee's total price did not deviate significantly from average price. DECISION Consolidated Services, Inc. (CSI) protests the award of a contract to American Service Contractors (ASC) under Department of the Army request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT1O-95-R--0010, for dining facility operations at Fort Benning, Georgia and two other locations. The award followed a reevaluation undertaken by the Army in response to an earlier protest by CSI against the award to ASC (B-276111.2, which we dismissed as academic by decision dated August 4, 1997). Based on the reevaluation, the agency affirmed its original decision and made award to ASC on September 5. CSI challenges the adequacy of the price evaluation. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite quantity, award fee type contract for a base year, with 4 option years. It sought unit and extended prices for estimated days of food service or number of feedings, by building or field area, for a total of more than 250 line items. The RFP listed various technical evaluation factors, including comprehension of the RFP requirements, which

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