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B-298751 1 (2006-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasru0001 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: Philadelphia Produce Market Wholesalers, LLC File: B-298751 Date: December 8, 2006 Ellis M. Fleisher for the protester. David P. Metzger, Esq., and Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Four Seasons Produce, Inc., an intervenor. Jay P. Manning, Esq., and Elliot J. Clark, Jr., Esq., Defense Commissary Agency, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging proposal evaluation and source selection is denied where record shows evaluation and award decision were reasonable and consistent with solicitation; protester's mere disagreement with agency's determination that a lack of detail in the firm's proposal did not warrant assigning full evaluation credit to the proposal is insufficient to show that the evaluation was unreasonable. 2. Protest that awardee obtained an unfair competitive advantage by hiring as a consultant a former government employee who had served as a technical evaluator for a previous procurement is denied where record shows that the individual did not assist in the preparation of the current solicitation and that there is no reason to believe inside information was shared with awardee. DECISION Philadelphia Produce Market Wholesalers, LLC protests the award of a contract to Four Seasons Produce, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. HDEC02-06-R- 0005, issued by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) for fresh fruits and vegetables (produce) for resale at commissaries located in DeCA's East Region (Area 3, Group 2).' Philadelphia contends that the agency improperly failed to give 1 DeCA recently took over procurement responsibility for the provision of produce to its military commissaries from the Defense Supply Center-Philadelphia (DSC-P) and (continued...)

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