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B-298697 1 (2006-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczre0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General X, MAccountability * 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. Decision Matter of: HoveCo File: B-298697 Date: November 14, 2006 Henry E. Steck, Esq., Harrison Steck, P.C., for the protester. Maj. Jeffrey Branstetter, 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 Protest arguing that proposal should have received performance confidence rating of unknown confidence rather than little confidence is denied where record clearly establishes that protester suffered no prejudice as a result of the little confidence rating. DECISION HoveCo protests the award of a contract to Porter Manufacturing Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8533-05-R-76816, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the design and production of a trailer-mounted fuel dispensing system. The protester takes issue with the agency's evaluation of its past performance. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the award of a 5-year (basic year, plus four ordering periods) fixed-price, requirements contract. The solicitation advised offerors that award would be made to the offeror whose proposal conformed to all solicitation requirements and was found to represent the best value to the government. Best value was to be determined on the basis of a trade-off between past performance and price, with past performance considered significantly more important than price. The solicitation provided for the assignment of performance confidence ratings to offerors based on their past performance. Six ratings were possible: high confidence, significant confidence, satisfactory confidence, unknown confidence, little confidence, and no confidence. RFP amend. 3, at 45. Of relevance to this

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