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B-412454.2 1 (2016-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrxj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jgA Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office :DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE- Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below wassubjectto a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: James J. Dean, doing business as Dean's Paving File: B-412454.2 Date: February 8, 2016 Evan A. Rossi, Esq., Rossi & Rossi Attorneys at Law, PLLC, for the protester. Col. Matthew J. Mulbarger, and Heather M. Mandelkehr, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee as having relevant past performance is denied where the agency noted that the response to a past performance questionnaire for a potentially relevant contract was unclear, the agency contacted the person who completed the questionnaire and obtained more specific information, and the agency evaluated the contract as relevant based on the person's response. DECISION James J. Dean, doing business as Dean's Paving, of Marcy, New York, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Mohawk Valley Materials, Inc. (MVM), also of Marcy, New York, by the Department of the Air Force, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8751-15-R-0022, for snow and ice removal services. Dean argues that the Air Force misevaluated MVM's past performance, and therefore deviated from the RFP criteria for award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On October 7, 2015, the Air Force issued the RFP as a combined synopsis and solicitation for commercial items, seeking fixed-price proposals to provide snow and ice removal services at Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate and the Defense Financial Accounting Service facilities in Rome, New York, for a base year and four option years. The RFP provided that award would be made to the

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