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B-402377 1 (2010-03-25)

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         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:  MFM   Lamey Group, LLC

          File:       B-402377

          Date:       March  25, 2010

          Robert M. Anderson, Esq., Akerman Senterfitt, LLP, for the protester.
          Genevieve G. Stubbs, Esq., Overseas Private Investment Corporation, for the agency.
          Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Procurements of supplies and services by the Overseas Private Investment
          Corporation (OPIC), a wholly-owned government corporation which is identified as
          a federal agency under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), are
          subject to GAO's bid protest jurisdiction.

          2. OPIC's procurement of planning and logistical support services is subject to the
          procurement procedures of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
          of 1949, as amended by CICA, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

          3. Protest that the agency unreasonably attributed to the awardee past performance
          that should actually have been attributed to the protester (where the protester and
          awardee are successor firms to another entity) is denied where the record shows
          that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance was based upon that
          firm's performance since the split of the two firms.
          DECISION

          MFM  Lamey  Group, LLC, of Miami, Florida, protests the award of a contract to
          MFMci, LLC, of Miami, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. OPIC-10-R-
          0006, issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for planning
          and logistical services for an international investment conference. MFM Lamey
          challenges OPIC's past performance evaluation, arguing that the agency improperly

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