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B-283677.3 1 (2000-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: TMI Services, hie. File: B-283677.3 Date: May 17, 2000 Timothy H. Power, Esq., for the protester. Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., and Jeffrey Gdanski, Esq., for MCS Management, Inc., an intervenor. Julius Rothlein, Esq., Theresa M. Young, Esq., and Rachel B. Thompson, Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's evaluation of proposals is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the applicable evaluation factors. 2. Selection of technically superior, higher-priced proposal is unobjectionable where the solicitation provided that technical considerations were more important than price and the agency reasonably concluded that the technical superiority of the awardee's proposal warranted payment of the associated price premium. DECISION TMI Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to MCS Management, Inc. (MCS) under request for proposals (RFP) No. M00681-99-R-0004, issued by the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton for full food services and mess attendant services for various messhalls at Camp Pendleton. TMI principally contends that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable and that TMI should have been selected for award. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued February 1, 1999 as a total small business set-aside, commercial-item pro curement, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to provide full food and mess attendant services at Camp Pendleton for a base year with option periods of 3 months not to exceed 12 months. RFP § A.1. The RFP provided for award to the responsible offeror whose conforming offer provided the

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