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B-283272 1 (1999-10-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajlw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __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: Alaskan Publications File: B-283272 Date: October 27, 1999 Robert J. Dickson, Esq., Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Inc., for the protester. Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., and Capt. Jennifer M. Bell-Towne, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's evaluation of proposals and award to offeror that submitted the proposal rated higher technically in a no-cost procurement is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation factors for award. DECISION Alaskan Publications protests the award of a contract to Anchorage Publishing under request for proposals (RFP) No. F65501-98-R-0068, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the publication of a weekly base newspaper at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the proposals. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on May 11, 1999, sought proposals for the award of a contract to publish the base newspaper, Sourdough Sentinel, in accordance with stated agency procedures for obtaining commercial enterprise (CE) newspapers. See Air Force Instruction (AFI) 35-301 (Apr. 15, 1994); Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 5120.4 (June 16, 1997). Under these procedures, the contractor is awarded the right to produce and distribute the newspaper, but must cover its costs and derive any profits from advertising revenues, so that the government does not expend