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B-294594 1 (2004-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapoy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Marriott Downtown File: B-294594 Date: November 8, 2004 Phillip E. Johnson, Federal Contract Specialists, Inc., for the protester. Capt. Eugene Y. Kim, Department of the Army, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of proposal evaluation and source selection is denied where record shows evaluation and award decision were reasonable and consistent with solicitation's evaluation terms and applicable procurement rules. DECISION Marriott Downtown protests the award of a contract to CMS-Radisson Hotel Memphis Airport by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912D-04-R-0007, issued to procure meals, lodging, and transportation for armed forces applicants at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) in Memphis, Tennessee. Marriott argues that the selection of CMS-Radisson's proposal was unreasonable. We deny the protest. The RFP, a commercial acquisition using a combination of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12, 13, 14 and 15, provided for award of a fixed-price requirements contract, for a base year period with four 1-year options, to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government. The RFP required that offerors submit a technical/quality proposal as well as a separate cost/price proposal. The RFP advised that offers would be evaluated on four factors: facility quality/quality control, past performance, transportation, and cost/price. The first factor, facility quality/quality control, included sanitation and cleanliness, room condition, meals, security, special features, facility location, and quality control. The RFP also advised that the non-cost factors were more important than cost or price,

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