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B-415969.2,B-415969.4 1 (2018-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduqe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has D been approved for public release. Matter of: Intermarkets Global USA, LLC File: B-415969.2; B-415969.4 Date: March 9, 2018 John G. Horan, Esq., and Thomas F. Rath, Esq., Dentons US LLP, for the protester. John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., David C. Hammond, Esq., Mark A. Ries, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., Robert J. Sneckenberg, Esq., Charles Baek, Esq., and Sharmistha Das, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for KGL Food Service WLL, the intervenor. R. Zen Schaper, Esq., and Cathleen Choromanski, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Company is not an interested party to protest the award of a contract where the proposal was submitted by a separate company. DECISION Intermarkets Global USA, LLC, (IMG US) of Boulder, Colorado, protests the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) award of a contract to KGL Food Services WLL, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE300-15-R-0042, for food distribution in the Middle East. IMG US primarily challenges the agency's evaluation of KGL's proposal. We dismiss the protest. On December 18, 2015, DLA issued the RFP for a full line food distributor responsible for the supply and delivery of semi-perishable and perishable food items in Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. Several offerors, including Intermarkets Alliance, submitted proposals by the RFP's February 8, 2016 closing date. During the procurement, DLA asked Intermarkets Alliance to explain certain inconsistencies in the firm's proposal with regard to the identity of the offeror. Intermarkets Alliance explained that the proposal was offered by a joint venture of two companies: Intermarkets Alliance (IMG) and USFI, Inc. Agency Request for Dismissal, exh. 7, at 10. Intermarkets Alliance stated that the first company was referred to as

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