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B-286935 1 (2001-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamny0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Centro Management, Inc. File: B-286935; B-286935.2 Date: February 26, 2001 Lynn Hawkins Patton, Esq., Ott & Purdy, for the protester. Col. Michael R. Neds and Maj. John Alumbaugh, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Solicitation provision setting forth applicability of Randolph-Sheppard Act preference (establishing priority for the blind in the award of contract for cafeteria services) does not establish a requirement that, in addition to being included in the competitive range, in order to receive the statutory selection preference a proposal submitted by a state licensing agency for the blind must be evaluated as virtually equal in price and technical capability to the other competitive range proposals. DECISION Centro Management, Inc. protests the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAKF1 1-99-R-1005, issued by the Department of the Army for food services at Fort Polk, and the award of a contract for these services to Louisiana Rehabilitation Services (LRS), a state licensing agency for the blind (SLA). Centro, the incumbent contractor, contends that its proposal was misevaluated and therefore incorrectly excluded from the competitive range, and that the award to LRS is improper because it was based on the agency's misapplication of the RFP provision advising that the solicitation is subject to the exercise of a selection preference under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. § 107-107f (1994) (the Act). We deny the protest. It is undisputed that this procurement is for cafeteria services that qualify for application of the selection preference afforded by the Act. Section M.6(a) of the RFP notifies offerors that the solicitation is subject to the Act, and that Army policy

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