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B-408790 1 (2013-11-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpxr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Labatt Food Service, LP File: B-408790 Date: November 25, 2013 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, PC, for the protester. Elizabeth Amato, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of solicitation's price evaluation scheme that assigns greater weight to an offeror's proposed distribution price is denied where agency conducted reasonable research to support the weighting factor in order to combat price manipulation of offerors' proposed distribution and delivery price components. DECISION Labatt Food Service, LP, of San Antonio, Texas, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM300-13-R-0079, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for subsistence prime vendor (SPV) support for Department of Defense (DOD) and non-DOD customers in central Texas. The protester challenges the solicitation's price evaluation scheme. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, which was issued on April 19, 2013, contemplates the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price contract, with an economic price adjustment, for a 2-month implementation and a 22-month performance period, with a 1-year, then a 2-year option. RFP (conformed) at 30-31, 43, 142.1 The contractor is responsible for furnishing food, beverage, and related items for garrisons and others. Id. at 42, 44. The procurement is being conducted pursuant to the 1 The RFP was amended eight times; our citations are to the conformed RFP.

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