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B-400613,B-400613.2 1 (2008-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadatu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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: Installation Management Company File: B-400613; B-400613.2 Date: December 31, 2008 Michael Bornstein, Esq., Bornstein Law Offices, Inc., for the protester. Edward A. Hayes for SKE Technischer Service GmbH, an interested party. Cheryl A. Smith, Esq., Department of Defense Education Activity, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's past performance and technical proposal is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable. DECISION Installation Management Company (IMC), of Ray, Ohio, protests the Department of Defense Education Activity's (DODEA) award of a contract to SKE Technischer Service GmbH (SKE), under request for proposals (RFP) No. HE1280-08-R-0006, for the German Schools Maintenance Program (GSMP). IMC asserts that the agency improperly evaluated its past performance and technical proposal. We deny the protest. DODEA is responsible for providing educational services to DOD dependents. The RFP provided for award of a contract for a 1-year base period, with four 1-year options, to furnish maintenance, repair, minor construction, and custodial services under the GSMP at approximately 60 DODEA schools and administrative sites in Germany and the Netherlands. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal was determined to represent the best value to the government on the basis of three evaluation factors: price, past performance, and technical merit (which had two subfactors, management and technical). Price was to be evaluated for reasonableness and price risk (with ratings of either low, moderate, or high risk). RFP at 61-62. Past performance was to be rated with regard to the relevance of prior contracts (with relevance ratings of highly relevant, moderately relevant, or slightly relevant) and customer evaluation ratings,

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