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B-292689,B-292689.2,B-292689.3 1 (2003-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacymo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General ........ inAccountability * Integrity * Reliability 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: American Recreation Products File: B-292689; B-292689.2; B-292689.3 Date: November 6, 2003 Ronald K. Henry, Esq., Kaye Scholer, for the protester. Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, for Tennier Industures, Inc., an intervenor. Sean P. Bamford, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably determined that awardee's past performance was superior to protester's is denied where awardee had performed a substantial number of contracts of similar complexity ahead of schedule, received high marks for customer satisfaction, and met its subcontracting goals, while protester had performed fewer contracts, those contracts were not of similar complexity, and the protester did not address subcontracting goals in its proposal. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated protester's production demonstration model (PDM) is denied where record shows agency reasonably concluded that PDM did not meet certain dimensional requirements and specifications. DECISION American Recreation Products (ARP) protests the award of a contract to Tennier Industries, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPO100-02-R-4024, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for modular sleep systems (MSS).' ARP asserts that the agency misevaluated its technical proposal and past performance, and the past performance of Tennier. 'The MSS is comprised of four components--patrol and cold weather sleeping bags, a compression stuff sack (storage bag with adjustable straps to compress the sleeping bag) and a bivy cover (a camouflaged, waterproof, vapor permeable outer cover that protects the sleeping bag and occupant from rain and groundwater).

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