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B-295959 1 (2005-05-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: International Outsourcing Services, LLC File: B-295959 Date: May 25, 2005 Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., David T. Hickey, Esq., and Joe R. Reeder, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., and Christine E. Trew, Esq., DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, for NCH Marketing Services, the intervenor. Elliot J. Clark, Esq., Defense Commissary Agency, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST The elimination of the protester's proposal from the competition for the award of a fixed-price contract is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined under the solicitation's price realism evaluation factor that the protester's proposed price was unrealistically low and the agency was reasonably concerned that the protester's contract performance may therefore be adversely affected. DECISION International Outsourcing Services, LLC (IOS) protests the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract to NCH Marketing Services under request for proposals (RFP) No. HDEC08-04-R-0019, issued by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), for coupon redemption services. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of its proposed price as unrealistic, and the resultant rejection of its proposal, were unreasonable. We deny the protest. DeCA commissaries provide for the resale of groceries and household supplies at the lowest practical price (consistent with quality) to members of the military services, their families and other authorized patrons at locations worldwide. Contracting Officer's Statement at 1. In performing this mission, the RFP here estimates that the commissaries will receive 160,000,000 coupons for merchandise, which DeCA must redeem for cash from the manufacturer who issued the coupon. Id. at 1-2. The successful contractor here will be required to provide all

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