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B-285882.11 1 (2002-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability 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: J.W. Holding Group & Associates, Inc. File: B-285882.11; B-285882.12 Date: October 23, 2002 Daniel S. Koch, Esq., Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenberg & Cooper, for the protester. Thomas J. Madden, Esq., Lars E. Anderson, Esq., John J. Pavlick, Jr., Esq., and Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Venable, Baetjer & Howard, for Sodexho Management, Inc., an intervenor. Julius Rothlein, Esq., U.S. Marine Corps, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's new price realism determination was consistent with limitation on reopened discussions (which essentially restricted changes to price proposals) where, although it was based on staffing not clearly indicated in awardee's prior technical proposal, that staffing level was reflected in prior price proposal. DECISION J.W. Holding Group & Associates, Inc. (JWH) protests the U.S. Marine Corps's (USMC) award of a contract to Sodexho Management, Inc. (SMI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. M00027-00-R-0002, for food services. JWH challenges the evaluation of proposals. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP provided for award of a primarily fixed-price incentive contract for a base period of 5 years, with 3 option years, to provide regional garrison food service at 23 messhalls on the West Coast. (Another RFP, No. M00027-00-R-0001, provided for award of a similar contract for 32 messhalls on the East Coast.) Under the solicitation, the contractor would provide full food service at 13 of the 23 West Coast messhalls, and management and mess attendant services (with food preparation

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