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B-292559,B-292559.2 1 (2003-10-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: American Artisan Productions, Inc. File: B-292559; B-292559.2 Date: October 7, 2003 Arthur Friedman for the protester. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation instructed offerors to submit past performance references for projects similar in size, complexity and nature to the contract being awarded and indicated that past performance would be evaluated based on performance of work similar in nature to that required by the solicitation, the agency reasonably downgraded protester's proposal for not identifying project references that were comparable in dollar value to that of the requirement solicited. 2. Because solicitation provided that the agency would evaluate the quality and workmanship of samples of museum exhibit work completed by offerors' proposed personnel, it was reasonable for the agency to consider the aesthetic quality of the work samples submitted by the offerors. 3. Contracting agency reasonably concluded that awardee's use of a subcontractor which had participated in the development of the solicitation's specifications did not present an organizational conflict of interest because the subcontractor had worked only on design aspects of the specifications, more than one contractor was involved in preparing the specifications, and the subcontractor was not in a position to draft specifications favoring its own products. DECISION American Artisan Productions, Inc. (AAP) protests the award of a contract to Promotion Products, Inc. (PPI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N9325020022, issued by the National Park Service (NPS), Department of the Interior, for services in connection with museum exhibits at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, a national park in Kimberly, Oregon. AAP principally alleges that the agency's

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