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G A 0Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
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Decision
Matter of: Industrial Construction & Trading Company
File: B-403849
Date: December 13, 2010
Michael A. Hordell, Esq., and Heather Kilgore Weiner, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP,
for the protester.
Leslie A. Nepper, Esq., and Joyce Conner-Gale, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency's rejection of proposal for failure to submit past performance information is
unobjectionable where the protester asserts that it sent the information, but there is
no evidence in the record which demonstrates that the agency received it.
DECISION
Industrial Construction & Trading Company (ICTC), of Amman and Kuwait, protests
the rejection of its proposal under solicitation No. W52PlJ-10-R-0132, issued by the
Department of the Army for line haul, heavy lift, and transport services throughout
Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ICTC asserts that the Army improperly downgraded
its proposal for failure to include adequate past performance information.
We deny the protest.
The solicitation provided for award on a best value basis considering price and
three non-price evaluation factors--technical, management, and past performance.
Past performance information was to be submitted by June 25, 2010, while the
technical, management, and price proposals were due on July 20. With respect to
past performance, offerors were to list up to six contracts performed in the past
3 years, with current points of contact. RFP § L, at 3.4. The solicitation further
provided as follows: [the] government will evaluate the quality and relevance of the
offeror's past performance. Relevant present and past performance pertain to work
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