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B-400452.4,B-400452.5 1 (2009-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadavb0001 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: Precision Mold & Tool File: B-400452.4; B-400452.5 Date: April 14, 2009 Steven M. Masiello, Esq., and Joseph G. Martinez, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for ATAP, Inc., an intervenor. Tracey L. Lewis, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's evaluation of offerors' quality and delivery past performance was reasonable, where solicitation advised offerors that past performance would be evaluated based on information listed in Past Performance Information Retrieval System--Statistical Reporting (PPIRS), offerors were given an opportunity to correct inaccuracies in PPIRS records, and the agency confirmed the validity of negative past performance; agency's decision not to select protester's lower-priced proposal was reasonable given its poor record of delivery performance and the agency's rational decision that awardee's superior performance record was worth the additional cost. DECISION Precision Mold & Tool (PMT) of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract to ATAP, Inc., of Eastaboga, Alabama, issued by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8532-08-R-22080 for tow bars for B-52 aircraft. PMT complains that the agency misevaluated both firms' past performance. We deny the protest. The RFP provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for eight tow bars and associated data line items, along with four options of one to seven tow bars per option. The solicitation announced that the award would be based on the evaluation of two factors--past performance and price--with past performance considered slightly more important than price. RFP § M, at 24.

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