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B-407936,B-407936.2,B-407936.3 1 (2013-04-19)

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          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
Acc      ;ntabty bIngilty I ReliIbikty                                  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.
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           Matter of:  FN Manufacturing LLC

           File:       B-407936; B-407936.2; B-407936.3

           Date:       April 19, 2013

           Richard P. Rector, Esq., Dawn E. Stern, Esq., and Dionis M. Gavin, Esq., DLA
           Piper US LLP, for the protester.
           Daniel R. Forman, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., and Derek R. Mullins, Esq.,
           Crowell & Moring LLP, for Colt Defense LLC, the intervenor.
           Capt. George P. Farley and Diane Nelson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
           agency.
           Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest challenging the evaluation of protester's proposal under past performance
           factor is denied where the past performance information the protester claims should
           have been considered was not provided in the protester's proposal; offerors bear
           the responsibility to identify relevant past performance information, and an agency
           is generally not required to investigate and consider matters not referenced in the
           proposal.
           DECISION

           FN Manufacturing LLC (FNM), of Columbia, South Carolina, protests the
           Department of the Army's award of a contract to Colt Defense LLC, of Hartford,
           Connecticut, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-1 2-R-01 82, for
           replacement barrels (heavy variant) for the M4 small arms weapon (carbine). The
           protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal under the past
           performance factor.

           We deny the protest.

           The solicitation contemplated the award of a 3-year, fixed-price, indefinite-
           delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to furnish up to 150,000 M4 carbine
           replacement barrels, with a guaranteed minimum of 64,000 barrels. Award was to
           be made on a best value basis, considering three factors--past performance, price,

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