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                   U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States

                                            DOCUMENT   FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

D   e c is ioThe decision issued on the date below was subject to
   DeCISIOn                               a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                          been approved for public release.

Matter of:   Ecolog Deutschland GmbH

File:        B-421531

Date:       May  9, 2023

Sareesh Rawat, Esq., Marshall & White, PC, for the protester.
Major Michael R. Tregle, Jr., Department of the Army, for the agency.
Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as technically
unacceptable is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
solicitation's evaluation criteria.
DECISION

Ecolog Deutschland GmbH   (Ecolog), of Dusseldorf, Germany, protests the award of a
contract to ACCL International DMCC (ACCL), of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, under
request for proposals (RFP) No. W912PB23D3011,  issued by the Department of the
Army for full food services at an Army dining facility in Illesheim, Germany. The
protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal, the
agency's price evaluation, and the resulting award decision.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On  December  19, 2022, the Army issued the solicitation pursuant to the procedures in
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, acquisition of commercial services,
seeking a contractor to provide food services, food preparation, headcount, and food
service sanitation services at the Flight Line Inn Dining Facility located at Storck
Barracks, Illesheim, Germany. Req. for Dismissal at 2-3. The solicitation contemplated
a fixed-price contract with a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. Id.;
Protest, exh. 3, RFP at 3.

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