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   SGAO

~Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


Matter of:

File:

Date:


Comptroller General
of the United States


   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
 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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Excel Manufacturing, LLC

B-412332.2

June 30, 2016


Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister, LLC, for the protester.
Allison Colsey Eck, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
Frank Maguire, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest is denied where the record does not show that the agency's rating of the
protester's past performance was unreasonable or inconsistent with the
solicitation's evaluation criteria.
DECISION

Excel Manufacturing, LLC (Excel), of El Paso, Texas, protests the Defense Logistics
Agency's (DLA) award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No.
SPEC1 C1-1 5-R-0073 to Carter Industries, Inc. (Carter), of Olive Hill, KY, for supply
of three varieties of coveralls. The protester challenges the agency's past
performance evaluation.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside, was for award of an indefinite-
delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, for a base year and three option years. RFP
at 56-57; Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement (COS) at 2. Award was to be made
on a best-value basis to the offeror whose proposal conformed to the RFP and was
most advantageous to the Government, cost or price, and other evaluation factors
considered. RFP at 56. Non-price factors, in order of importance, were product
demonstration model (PDM)/technical risk and past performance confidence

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