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B-421502 Jun 14, 2023 1 (2023-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaooui0001 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 Decision Matter of: Downie Jones Ship Stores File: B-421502 Date: June 14, 2023 Robert Malyszek, Downie Jones Ship Stores, for the protester. Cathleen Choromanski, Esq., and Amanda Stone, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the terms of a solicitation on the basis that it provides for an unequal assessment of proposed pricing and will result in a flawed award decision is denied where the solicitation provides sufficient detail to allow offerors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis. DECISION Downie Jones Ship Stores, of Murarrie, Australia, protests the terms of solicitation SPE300-20-R-0001, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for full line food distribution services. The protester contends that the solicitation is flawed because it does not provide for an assessment of proposed pricing on an equal basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 21, 2021, DLA issued the solicitation, using the commercial items procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, seeking proposals from offerors to provide subsistence prime vendor support to military and other authorized customers located throughout Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Diego Garcia, and Australia. Req. for Dismissal, encl. 3, Solicitation, amend. 20, at 1, 86.1 DLA seeks to enter into a 1 To date, the solicitation has been amended 24 times. On November 15, 2022, DLA issued amendment 20, in which it provided a conformed copy of the solicitation that

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