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B-284997 1 (2000-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalcb0001 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: Rice Services, Ltd. File: B-284997 Date: June 29, 2000 David B. Dempsey, Esq., and Andrew Price, Esq., Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, for the protester. Michael D. Rossiter, Esq., Kathy B. Cowley, Esq., and Paul W. Knoth, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that, in performing a cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76, agency failed to reasonably compare the level and quality of performance to be obtained under the government's Most Efficient Organizatio n/Management Study (MEO) with the level and quality o f perfo rmanc e to be obtained under the best value private-sector offer is sustained where the agency's comparison recharacterizes previously evaluated strengths in the private- sector proposal as unnecessary expenses and redundancies, uses assumptions that staffing levels in the MEO are adequate to meet the requirements of the performance work statement, and fails to compare the actual level of effort that will be obtained under each approach. DECISION Rice Services, Ltd., protests the Department of the Navy's decision, pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-76, that it would be more economical to perform full food service activities in-house at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland, rather than to contract for these services with Rice under solicitation No. N00600-99-R-1649. Rice primarily challenges the adequacy of the agency's comparison of the performance reflected in the go vernment's Mo st Efficient Organizatio n/Management Study (MEO) with the

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