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B-421462 May 09, 2023 1 (2023-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaoopw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Byrd Enterprises Unlimited, Inc. File: B-421462 Date: May 9, 2023 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq.; John M. Mattox II, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., and Timothy Laughlin, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for AIIServ, Inc., the intervenor. Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., and Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's decision to make award before resolving the protester's alleged agency-level protest is denied where the record does not show that the protester submitted a protest to the agency. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance and the agency's source selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Byrd Enterprises Unlimited, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Lynchburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to AIIServ, Inc., of Chapin, South Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4626-23-Q-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for ground maintenance services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's proposal1 and made an improper source selection decision. 1 Although issued as an RFQ for the acquisition of commercial products and services under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 and the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR part 13, the solicitation refers to firms as offerors, and the responses submitted as quotations. For the sake of consistency, and because the

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