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B-270860.5 1 (1996-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaebm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Department of the Army--Reconsideration File: B-270860.5 Date: July 18, 1996 James H. Roberts III, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for Holiday Inn-Laurel. J. William Bennett, Esq., for Convention Marketing Services, Inc. Col. Nicholas P. Retson and Capt. Bryant S. Banes, Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania L. Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for reconsideration is denied where the requesting party has not shown that our prior decision contained legal or factual errors which would warrant a reversal or modification of our decision. DECISION The Department of the Army requests that we reconsider our decision in Holiday Inn-Laurel--Protest and Request for Costs, B-270860.3; B-270860.4, May 30, 1996, 96-1 CPD 259, concerning the Army's procurement of meals, lodging, and transportation to support the Baltimore Military Entrance and Processing Station in Baltimore, Maryland under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAHC36-95-R-0012. In that decision, we granted Holiday Inn-Laurel's request that it be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protest of the evaluation of its proposal, and sustained its protest of the Army's refusal to award it the contract in light of the fact that the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued the firm a certificate of competency (COC). We deny the request for reconsideration. Holiday Inn-Laurel filed a protest' in which it asserted that the Army had improperly evaluated its proposal as marginal and, more specifically, that the Army had improperly evaluated its proposal with respect to past performance. The firm also challenged the Army's past performance evaluation to the extent that it constituted 1The long history of this disputed procurement is set forth in detail in our May 30 decision and will not be repeated here. 1243718