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B-401930.3 1 (2010-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Dorado Services, Inc. File: B-401930.3 Date: June 7, 2010 Joseph M. Goldstein, Esq., Shutts & Bowen LLP, for the protester. Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., and Christopher G. Burwell, Esq., Bailey & Bailey PC, for Perry Management, Inc., the intervenor. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a commercial item acquisition that provided for an integrated assessment of past performance and price of technically acceptable proposals, protest of past performance evaluation and selection of a lower-priced proposal for award is denied, where the agency had the same level of confidence in both offerors' ability to successfully perform the contract and reasonably concluded that there were no meaningful differences in the protester's and awardee's past performance, notwithstanding the protester's slightly more positive references. DECISION Dorado Services, Inc., of Sanford, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Perry Management Co., of Honolulu, Hawaii, by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4897-08-R-0008 for refuse and recycling services at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Dorado challenges the evaluation of past performance. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On August 7, 2008, the Air Force issued the solicitation as a commercial item acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract (with a few reimbursable contract line items) for a 1-year base period with four 1-year option periods. Id. at 2-32. The

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