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B-420812,B-420812.2 Aug 31, 2022 1 (2022-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaonon0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to D e cisio n a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has C( been approved for public release. Matter of: Three Cities Management, LLC File: B-420812; B-420812.2 Date: August 31, 2022 Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., and Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., and Gabrielle A. Sprio, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for Rice Services, Inc., the intervenor. Abraham Young, Esq., Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Major Michael R. Tregle, Jr., and Captain Camille Grathwohl, Department of the Army, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of offerors' technical proposals and past performance is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation. 2. Protest that the agency failed to perform a proper best-value tradeoff and essentially converted the basis for award from tradeoff to lowest-priced, technically acceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency performed a best-value tradeoff that was reasonable and adequately documented. DECISION Three Cities Management, LLC (TCM), a small business of Middletown, New York, protests the award of a contract to Rice Services, Inc. (Rice), a small business of Smithville, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W911 SD21 R0054, which was issued by the Department of the Army for mess attendant and waiter services at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York. TCM challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals, tradeoff analysis, and resulting source selection decision. We deny the protest.

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