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B-402059.4,B-402059.5 1 (2010-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbhb0001 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: FN Manufacturing, LLC File: B-402059.4; B-402059.5 Date: March 22, 2010 Joseph J. Dyer, Esq., Martin J. Golub, Esq., Amanda B. Weiner, Esq., and Daniel P. Wierzba, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Joyce K. Hackenbrach, Esq., Stanley R. Soya, Esq., and Heather Kilgore Weiner, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the intervenor. Vera Meza, Esq., and Caridad Ramos, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's evaluation of awardee's past performance as relevant based on comparative complexity of awardee's past performance references was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation which afforded the agency the discretion to consider the degree to which contracts are of a comparable complexity, size or value to the proposed effort in determining relevance. DECISION FN Manufacturing, LLC, of Columbia, South Carolina, protests the award of a contract to Colt Defense LLC, of West Hartford, Connecticut, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-09-R-0402, issued by the U.S. Army Materiel Command for the supply of M240B machine guns. FN argues that the Army did not reasonably evaluate Colt's past performance in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria, the Army's technical evaluation was flawed, and its source selection decision was unreasonable. We deny the protest. The Army issued the RFP on April 7, 2009, contemplating the award of a 4-year fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the supply of M240B machine guns. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal was determined to represent the best value to the government considering the following factors: technical, past performance, small business participation, and price. The

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