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B-286664.4 1 (2001-06-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptammt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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: SelRico Services, Inc. File: B-286664.4; B-286664.5; B-287481.2; B-287481.3 Date: June 22, 2001 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Theodore M. Bailey Law Office, for the protester. Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for Acorn Services, Inc., an intervenor. Kerri A. Cox, Esq., and John D. Inazu, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Even where price is the least important evaluation factor for award under a best- value procurement, agency may award to an offeror with a lower-priced, lower-rated proposal if it determines that the price premium involved in awarding to an offeror with a higher-rated proposal is too great to justify. DECISION SelRico Services, Inc. protests the reevaluation of proposals and resulting contract award to Acorn Services, Inc. by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41652-00-R0025 for mess attendant services at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. SelRico alleges that the best value tradeoff decision supporting the source selection was unreasonable and contrary to the RFP's evaluation criteria. SelRico also protests the Air Force's issuance of a purchase order to Acorn to provide these services during the pendency of SelRico's protest of the award to Acorn under the RFP. We deny the protests. The solicitation, incorporating the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses applicable to commercial items, provided that the award would be based on an assessment of each offeror's past performance and price, with past performance the more important factor. As relevant here, past performance was to be evaluated on similar contracts completed within the past 3 years or currently in progress, using a past performance survey to determine the quality of work previously performed and

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