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B-405909.2 1 (2012-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadowf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Blackstone Consulting, Inc. File: B-405909.2 Date: January 31, 2012 David S. Black, Esq., and Oliya S. Zamaray, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST GAO recommends reimbursement of the costs of filing and pursuing protest challenging agency's failure to evaluate firm's past performance questionnaires as part of the past performance evaluation where the issue was clearly meritorious but the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action; protest costs need not be allocated between clearly meritorious protest issue and other protest issues where all issues were intertwined parts of protester's basic objection that the agency's past performance evaluation was improper. DECISION Blackstone Consulting, Inc., of Los Angeles, California, requests that our Office recommend that the Department of the Air Force reimburse its costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the award of a contract to Food Services, Inc. of Gainesville (FSIG), of Gainesville, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7037-1 1 -R-0006, for the provision of full food services at the Five Hats dining facility located at Fort Meade, Maryland. We grant the request. The solicitation provided for a best value source selection where offerors' past performance history would be evaluated on a basis significantly more important than cost or price considerations. RFP § M.A. Past performance information would consist of offeror-provided self-assessment surveys of their performance under up to five contracts, as well as past performance questionnaires from up to five references. The questionnaires were to be emailed directly from the reference to

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