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B-408012,B-408012.2 1 (2013-05-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpnt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc ; tabty * Infegrilty Reliabikty 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: Cantu Services, Inc. File: B-408012; B-408012.2 Date: May 23, 2013 Joan K. F. Gluys, Esq., John C. Dulske, Esq., and Bryan L. Kost, Esq., Dulske & Gluys, P.C., for the protester. Robert L. Brown, Esq., Baker, Ravenel & Bender, LLP, for the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, an intervenor. Maj. Samuel E. Gregory, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement conducted pursuant to the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. § 107d-3(e) (2006), agency did not act improperly in finding the price offered by a state licensing agency (SLA) to be reasonable based on comparison to a government estimate that was calculated primarily with data from the SLA's performance costs under a predecessor contract. DECISION Cantu Services, Inc., of Wichita Falls, Texas, protests the award of a contract to the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, of Columbia, South Carolina, a state licensing agency for the blind (SLA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124C-1 2-R-001 1, issued by the Department of the Army for food services at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Cantu argues that award to the SLA was improper because its price was not reasonable. Cantu also argues that the agency wrongly evaluated its proposal as technically unacceptable based on a mechanical application of an undisclosed and unreasonable staffing estimate. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, which was issued on September 25, 2012, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a 5-year period (a base year and four 1-year options).

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