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B-293783 1 (2004-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacysf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . Accountability * 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: DeLeon Technical Services, Inc. File: B-293783 Date: June 4, 2004 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, for the protester. Richard B. Oliver, Esq., McKenna, Long & Aldridge, for T Square Logistics Services Corporation, an intervenor. Lt. Col. David L. Bell and Michele T. Lacey, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's evaluation of past performance and source selection decision is denied where record shows that the evaluation and award decision were reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and in accordance with applicable procurement rules. DECISION DeLeon Technical Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to T Square Logistics Services Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41636-02-R- 0045, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force for vehicle operations and maintenance at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), Texas. DeLeon challenges the agency's evaluation of the offerors' past performance and the decision to award the contract to a lower-priced offeror; the protester believes that it has more relevant past performance experience than the awardee, and that the agency should have considered that in making its source selection. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on December 16, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract for a base period and 4 option years. Offerors were advised that the agency would make a best value award decision using a performance/price trade-off (PPT). Under the RFP's PPT procedures, technically acceptable proposals would be evaluated for the quality of the firms' past performance, in order to assess performance confidence. RFP at 55-56. Past performance was to be evaluated based

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