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United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: The Staten Island Hotel
File: B-292893.3
Date: August 6, 2004
Louis Biancone, Esq., and Thomas B. Wilinsky, Esq., Biancone & Wilinsky, for the
protester.
Capt. Richard M. Sudder, Department of the Army, for the agency.
Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and David Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency reasonably assigned protester's proposal no more than a satisfactory rating
under past performance factor where record of protester's recent performance of
incumbent contract, for meals, lodging and transportation for military applicants,
indicated discrepancies with respect to matters relating to applicants' health and
safety, failures to comply with specification requirements concerning the availability
and selection of food for applicants, and failures to afford applicants the same level
of service and quality of facilities offered to other guests.
DECISION
The Staten Island Hotel (SIH) protests the Department of the Army's award of a
contract to the Hilton Garden Inn (HGI), under request for proposals (RFP)
No. DABK21-03-R-0036, for meals, lodging, and transportation for applicants arriving
for processing at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) in New York City.
SIH challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, a commercial acquisition using a combination of [Federal Acquisition
Regulation parts] 12 & 15, provided for award of a fixed-price requirements
contract, for a base period with four 1-year option periods, to the offeror whose
proposal was most advantageous to the government. Amend. 2. Determination of
the most advantageous proposal was to be based on five evaluation factors:
(1) facility quality, including subfactors for sanitation and cleanliness, room
condition, meals, security, special features, and facility location; (2) transportation;](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptapim0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)