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         G    A    O                                                   Comptroller General
      Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability                          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:   RELYANT Global, LLC

         File:        B-413741

         Date:        November 21, 2016

         Donald M. Patton, for the protester.
         Kenneth Biles, for Gear International, LLC, the intervenor.
         Robin E. Walters, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
         Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
         GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated past performance is denied where the
         record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation
         criteria.
         DECISION

         RELYANT Global, LLC, of Maryville, Tennessee, protests the award of a contract to
         Gear International, LLC, of Pensacola, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP)
         No. SP4510-16-R-0002, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for
         equipment repair and maintenance services in Bagram and Kandahar, Afghanistan.
         The protester asserts that the agency's past performance evaluation and the
         resulting award decision were unreasonable.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         The RFP, issued on April 29, 2016, sought proposals for the award of single fixed-
         price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to the offeror whose proposal
         represents the best value to the government, considering past performance and
         price, with past performance significantly more important than price. RFP at 18, 59.
         The RFP requires the contractor to provide preventive maintenance and repairs for
         all material handling equipment and unscheduled maintenance and repairs for
         specified equipment at two locations in Afghanistan--Bagram and Kandahar. Id.
         at 3. The independent government estimate (IGE) of the value of the contract for

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