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B-282232.2 1 (1999-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajjc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: ARAMARK Services, Inc. File: B-282232.2 Date: June 18, 1999 Paul Ylvisaker for the protester. John Richardson, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation provisions concerning projected requirements under a training center food services contract impose undue risk on prospective contractor where quantity of students to be served will vary and option year payment will be based on an actual count of meals served at a fixed per-meal price basis is denied. Agency reasonably may impose some risk upon offerors where offerors are provided with adequate information to intelligently prepare bids and compete on a relatively equal basis. DECISION ARAMARK Services, Inc. protests that the specifications in request for propo sals (RFP) No. FTC 99-3, issued by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) for the provision of food services at its training center in Glynco, Georgia, are defective because they are unduly restrictive, fail to provide sufficient information to allow vendors to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis, and impose undue risk on the contractor. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on January 27, 1999 and amended three times, calls for offers to provide three meals per day in support of center training programs in a cafeteria-style dining facility on the center grounds. The center offers a variety of training programs that range from a single week to 18 weeks in duration, for a student population that fluctuates in size but typically numbers approximately 2,000. The students generally receive all their meals in the dining facility, and many staff members--of whom there may be as many as 2,000--eat some of their meals in the facility.

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