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B-285813 1 (2000-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaleh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. United States General Accounting 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. Decision Matter of: MCS Management, hie. File: B-285813; B-285882 Date: October 11, 2000 Sam Z. Gdanski, Esq., Jeffrey I. Gdanski, Esq., and Scott H. Gdanski, Esq., for the protester. Julius Rothlein, Esq., U.S. Marine Corps, and Genemarie M. Pade, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency requirements for regional garrison food service should be set aside for small business concerns is denied where agency reasonably determined that there was no reasonable expectation of receiving fair market price offers from at least two responsible small business concerns; there was no indication that small business concerns had experience performing food service contracts of the scope and complexity of the new regional requirements, which combined features such as geographically dispersed messhalls across an entire region, rather than at individual installations; responsibility for the management of numerous messhalls, rather than for just a few messhalls or for only less demanding mess attendant services; need for use of advanced food technology, including centralized food processing; and responsibility for the purchase and ownership of subsistence. 2. Protest that agency improperly consolidated its garrison food service requirements, including work currently performed under 11 contracts and work currently performed by the government, into two regional contracts is dismissed where there is no showing that protester was prejudiced by consolidation; although protester challenges claimed benefits of the consolidated procurement approach, it failed to demonstrate that consolidation significantly inhibited or precluded its competing for the award, and instead argued that the requirements do not differ significantly in c harac ter fro m its c urrent fo o d service c o ntrac ts and that it c an perform the consolidated requirement.

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