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B-417079 1 (2019-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Carolina Linkages, Inc. d/b/a Safe Ports, Inc. File: B-417079 Date: January 24, 2019 William T. Welch, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. David E. Fletcher, Esq., and Brenna D. Duncan, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for Synergy Logistics Services, LLC, an intervenor. Timothy J. Ryan, Esq., Timothy L. Wilson, Esq., and Daniel K. Poling, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of joint venture's past performance based on past performance examples performed by the constituent members of the joint venture is denied where nothing in the solicitation prohibited the agency from evaluating those examples. DECISION Carolina Linkages, Inc. d/b/a Safe Ports, Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina, protests the award of a contract to Synergy Logistics Services, LLC (SLS), of North Kansas City, Missouri, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SP3300-18-R-5004, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency as a small business set-aside for warehouse distribution services in the territory of Guam. Safe Ports argues that the agency misevaluated the SLS proposal and unreasonably made award to that firm. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. Safe Ports' protest is confined to a challenge to the agency's evaluation of SLS's past performance.' In this regard, Safe Ports notes that SLS is a mentor-prot6g6 joint 1 In its original protest, Safe Ports also suggested that the agency misevaluated the SLS proposal because, according to the protester, the firm lacks the experience necessary to perform the management work required under the RFP. The agency provided a (continued...)

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