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B-290575 1 (2002-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaogc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Demusz Manufacturing Company, Inc. File: B-290575 Date: August 5, 2002 Larry Harper for the protester. Howard Q. Bain, Esq., and Milton D. Watkins, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where request for proposals provided for evaluation of technical acceptability on pass/fail basis and selection of awardee from among those offerors whose proposals had been determined technically acceptable through application of a price/past performance trade-off, contracting officer reasonably selected awardee's technically acceptable, higher-priced proposal over protester's technically acceptable, lower- priced one where he determined that protester's price advantage was outweighed by its lower past performance rating. DECISION Demusz Manufacturing Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Dover Tool Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. F34601-02-R-0079, issued by the Department of the Air Force for stage 2 support turbine nozzles for the F1 10 aircraft. Demusz contends that its proposal represented the best value to the government. We deny the protest. The RFP in this procurement, which was set aside for small business, contemplated award of a fixed-price contract to the offeror whose proposal represented the best value to the government. Proposals were to be evaluated on the basis of technical, past performance, and price factors. The solicitation provided for the evaluation of technical acceptability on a pass/fail basis and for the selection of an awardee from among those offerors whose proposals had been determined technically acceptable through application of a price/performance trade-off. Past performance and price

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