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B-403395.6,B-403395.8 1 (2011-12-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadomc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A 0 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. D e c i s i o n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Camel Manufacturing Company, Inc. File: B-403395.6; B-403395.8 Date: December 8, 2011 Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., and Erin B. Sheppard, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. J. Andrew Watson, III, Esq., Stephen D. Davis, II, Esq., and L. Justin Burney, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C., for AC, Inc., an intervenor. Joseph R. Weidenburner, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated offerors' past performance/experience is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the criteria stated in the solicitation. DECISION Camel Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Pioneer, Tennessee, protests the award of a contract to AC, Inc., of Jackson, Alabama, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPMIC1-09-R-0147, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for tents. The protester challenges the reasonableness of the agency evaluations and trade-off decision. We deny the protest. DLA, through DLA troop support, supplies a wide variety of goods and related services to the military worldwide. This RFP, issued as a HUBZone set-aside, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) fixed-price contract, with economic price adjustments, with a 1-year base period and four 1-year options, for specialized tents. Past performance/experience, the sole technical evaluation factor, contained two subfactors of equal importance: experience and quality of items/delivery performance. Under the experience subfactor, the RFP required the offeror to

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