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        G     A    O                                                 Comptroller General
      Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability                         of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of: Graybar

         File:       B-410788

         Date:       February 19, 2015

         Ronald Drescher for the protester.
         Nicole M. Franchetti, Esq., Department of Defense, 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 of elimination of protester's proposals from the competitive range is denied
         where the record shows that agency reasonably concluded that the proposals were
         not among the most highly rated.
         DECISION

         Graybar, of Lanham, Maryland, protests the exclusion of its proposals from the
         competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM8E3-14-R-0005,
         issued by the Defense Logistics Agency under the Maintenance, Repair, and
         Operations Tailored Logistics Support Prime Vendor Program. The protester
         challenges the evaluation of its proposals under each of the evaluation factors.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP provided for award of two 5-year, fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-
         quantity contracts for maintenance, repair, operations supply services, and related
         incidental services, with one award in each of two zones in the South Central
         Region of the United States. RFP at 6, 29. The guaranteed minimum contract
         value for Zone 1 (Texas, Louisiana) was $3 million and the maximum was
         $225 million, while the minimum for Zone 2 (Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
         Kansas, and Arkansas) was $2 million and the maximum was $157.5 million. Id.
         at 6. Offerors could propose for either or both of the zones. Award was to be made
         to the offerors whose proposals represented the best value to the government
         considering the following factors: past performance; technical merit, including

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