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B-412765.2 1 (2016-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsis0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: SSI Technology, Inc. File: B-412765.2 Date: July 13, 2016 Robert A. Bloom for the protester. Adam J. Heer, Esq., and John R. Hart, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the evaluation of awardee's past performance and agency's best-value determination is denied where the record shows that the evaluation and source selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION SSI Technology, Inc. (SSI), a small business located in Madison Heights, Michigan, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Five Star Associates, Inc., of Bangor, Pennsylvania, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE7L7-16-Q-0075, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency-Land and Maritime (DLA-L&M), for battery chargers. SSI challenges the evaluation of Five Star's past performance and DLA's best-value source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, which was set aside for small businesses, was issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 13 to vendors holding DLA eProcurement Automated Simplified Acquisition contracts, and sought delivery of 195 battery chargers (national stock number 6130-01-267-3309) within 244 days. RFQ at 1-2, 10-11 ; Master Solicitation, Revision 31, Dec. 15, 2015 (Master Solicitation), at 1. The RFQ incorporated the eProcurement master solicitation by reference, which, as relevant here, provides for the manual evaluation of quotations and issuance of the purchase order on a best-value basis, considering price, delivery, and past

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