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B-277145 1 (1997-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagba0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Good Food Service, Inc. File: B-277145 Date: September 2, 1997 John E. Gagliano, Esq., Cohen, Gettings, Dunham & Davis, for the protester. Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Theodore M. Bailey, P.C., for Selrico Services, Inc., an interveno r. John Lariccia, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly found proposal technically unacceptable is denied where record shows proposal contained numerous and extensive informational deficiencies; agencies are under no obligation to seek clarification during discussions where proposal is so deficient that it would have to be significantly rewritten to be found technically acceptable. DECISION Good Food Service, Inc. protests the elimination of its proposal from further consideration, due to informational deficiencies, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4416-96-R-0103, issued by the Department of the Air Force for full food service at Fort Meade, Maryland. We deny the protest. The RFP called for fixed-price offers to provide food services for a base year and three 1-year options at Fort Meade. The RFP required firms to submit detailed technical proposals including information relating to the offeror's quality control procedures, corporate experience, organizational and personnel resources, and past performance. Firms were advised that the agency would perform a technical evaluation (using several equally-weighted evaluation criteria), a performance risk assessment, and a price evaluation to determine which offer represented the best overall value to the government. Good Food submitted a timely proposal in response to the RFP. After performing the initial technical evaluation, the Air Force eliminated Good Food's proposal from

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