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B-296616 1 (2005-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqyc0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Cattlemen's Meat Company File: B-296616 Date: August 30, 2005 Joseph Dirik, Esq., Jenkens & Gilchrist, for the protester. Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's cancellation of solicitation for food services to instead perform the services in-house is denied where the protester's price submitted in response to the solicitation significantly exceeded the government estimate, which has not been shown to be other than realistic and fair. DECISION Cattlemen's Meat Company protests the Department of the Air Force's decision to perform food services for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) in-house rather than award a contract to Cattlemen's under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4690-05-R-0021. We deny the protest. This protest concerns the acquisition of food services for two units of AFROTC cadets at Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) , South Dakota. For the previous 2 years, the requirement for food services to accommodate congressionally-mandated field training of AFROTC cadets held at Ellsworth AFB each summer had been provided in-house by the Air Force's 28' SVS (Services) Squadron at the base's Bandit Dining Facility, or alternatively, in an overflow situation, at the base's officer's club, the Dakota's, a nonappropriated fund instrumentality (NAFI). In 2005, the Air Force required food services for three encampments of AFROTC cadets, with the first encampment scheduled for May 19, the second scheduled for June 22, and the third scheduled for July 28. To satisfy the requirement, the Air

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