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B-296435.2 1 (2005-09-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqxn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Incident Catering Services, LLC File: B-296435.2; B-296435.3; B-296435.7; B-296435.8 Date: September 7, 2005 Ronald S. Perlman, Esq., and Michael B. Tuite, Esq., Buchanan Ingersoll PC, for the protester. David G. Brown, Esq., Merrill O'Sullivan, LLP, for North Slope Catering, LLC; Susan M. Stewart, Stewart's Firefighter Food Catering, Inc.; and Harold M. Nelson, Big Sky Mobile Catering, intervenors. Byron W. Waters, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's technical proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation of proposals was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria; protester's disagreement with agency's evaluation is insufficient to show it was unreasonable. 2. Protest alleging that, in its evaluation of the protester's proposal, the agency unreasonably ignored information that was close at hand (but not contained in the protester's proposal) is denied where the information in question bears on whether the protester's proposed equipment satisfied the technical requirements of the solicitation, and thus by nature could vary in response to the individual solicitation. 3. Protest that agency unreasonably decided not to hold discussions with offerors is denied given that the contracting officer has broad discretion in deciding whether to hold discussions and nothing in the record indicates that the contracting officer abused her discretion in determining not to conduct discussions. DECISION Incident Catering Services, LLC (ICS) protests its nonselection for contract award under request for proposals (RFP) No. 49-05-07, issued by the National Interagency Fire Center, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, for mobile food services in various locations; for certain locations, the Forest Service awarded contracts to offerors other than ICS and, for other locations, elected not to make contract award.

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