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B-285813.3 1 (2001-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamlj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability 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: Eurest Support Services File: B-285813.3; B-285813.4; B-285813.5; B-285882.4; B-285882.5; B-285882.7 Date: July 3, 2001 James J. Regan, Esq., Shauna E. Alonge, Esq., Elizabeth W. Newsom, Esq., and Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Mathew S. Perlman, Esq., Richard J. Webber, Esq., and Natalie S. Walters, Esq., Arent Fox, for Sodexho Marriott Management, an intervenor. Julius Rothlein, Esq., Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against award of primarily fixed-price incentive contracts for regional garrison food service at U.S. Marine Corps installations is sustained where agency did not properly assess realism of awardee's low proposed target price, which was the principal basis for determination that awardee's evaluated price was low. DECISION Eurest Support Services (ESS) protests the U.S. Marine Corps's (USMC) award of a contract to Sodexho Marriott Management (SMM) under request for proposals (RFP) Nos. M00027-00-R-0001 and M00027-00-R-0002, for regional garrison food service. The protester challenges the evaluation of technical and cost proposals. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFPs provided for award of two primarily fixed-price incentive contracts for a base period of 5 years, with 3 option years, to provide regional garrison food service at 32 messhalls on the East Coast and 23 messhalls on the West Coast. USMC had previously contracted for full food service at 10 of the messhalls; under the solicitations, the number of full food service messhalls increased to 35. USMC had current contracts for mess attendant services at 29 of the messhalls; under the solicitations, mess attendant messhalls were reduced in number to 18 and will

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