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B-276903 1 (1997-07-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagad0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: MTP (JV) File: B-276903 Date: July 31, 1997 John Lukjanowicz, Esq., Oles Morrison & Rinker, for the protester. Karen S. Hindson, Esq., for D.E.W. Joint Venture, an intervenor. Elizabeth Rivera Bagwell, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation contained specific qualification requirements for project manager, including educational requirements (high school diploma and community college certificate, for which candidate could substitute experience) and experience requirements (3 years in food service, with 2 years as a supervisor); protester provided no information on time periods during which candidate for project manager worked at positions listed on resume; and agency advised protester during discussions that it had failed to provide information for evaluation of project manager's qualifications, protester should have recognized need to provide basic information necessary to evaluate its proposal, notwithstanding that agency specifically identified only failure to provide information on high school diploma as aspect of qualifications not addressed. DECISION MTP (JV), a joint venture of Traction Systems, Inc. and McClean's Restoration Services, protests the award of a contract to D.E.W. Joint Venture under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00604-96-R-0063, for mess attendant services at the Marine Corps base, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. MTP contends that discussions were inadequate to alert it to the omission from its proposal of information necessary to establish the qualifications of its project manager. We deny the protest. On October 16, 1996, the agency issued the RFP for a firm, fixed-price contract, to provide labor and supplies to serve food and clean the dining halls at the base, for a base period (established through subsequent amendment as 6 months), with four 1-year option periods. The solicitation provided for evaluation of technical and past performance factors, in addition to price. The RFP stated that past performance was more important than price and that the agency intended to make award to the

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