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B-400175 1 (2008-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadavw0001 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: RCL Components, Inc. File: B-400175 Date: August 19, 2008 J. Hatcher Graham, Esq., for the protester. John J. Melton, Melton Sales & Services, Inc., for the intervenor. Marvin Gibbs, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency consideration in past performance evaluation of the relative amount of an offeror's government contracting experience was improper because the stated evaluation criteria did not expressly include this consideration is denied, where solicitation provided for evaluation of programmatic and logistical considerations and type of contract, which were sufficient to encompass consideration of whether an offeror had experience performing government contracts; while solicitations must identify the evaluation factors and significant subfactors, they are not required to identify all areas of each that might be taken into account, provided that any unidentified areas are reasonably related to or encompassed by the stated criteria. DECISION RCL Components, Inc. protests the Department of the Air Force's award of a contract to Melton Sales & Services, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8519-07-R-72276, for overhaul of aircraft tow tractors. RCL challenges the past performance evaluation and resulting source selection. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued August 21, 2007, provided for award of a requirements contract for a basic contract period of 1 year, with four 1-year option periods, to overhaul an estimated quantity of 166 of 3 types of tow tractors: the MB-2 tow tractor, used for towing aircraft up to 500,000 pounds in weight; the nuclear-certified MB-4 tow tractor, used for towing munitions trailers up to 80,000 pounds and aircraft up to 175,000 pounds; and the U-30 tow tractor, used for towing aircraft up to

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