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B-416976.2,B-416976.3,B-416976.4 1 (2019-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States D cision ..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. M a t t e r o f : M a t s o n N a v ig a t io n C o m p a n y , I n -c . ............................................................................................................... File: B-416976.2; B-416976.3; B-416976.4 Date: January 24, 2019 Joseph D. West, Esq., Lindsay M. Paulin, Esq., Ryan Comer, Esq., and Crystal L. Weeks., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, for the protester. Jon D. Levin, Esq., and W. Brad English, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the intervenor. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Erika L. Whelan Retta, Esq., Todd Federici, Esq., and Robert D. Bowers, Esq., Department of the Air Force, United States Transportation Command, for the agencies. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated protester's past performance is denied where agency considered the relevancy of the past performance examples provided by the protester. 2. Protest that in evaluating awardee's past performance, agency failed to consider information in a Department of Defense Inspector General report is denied where the information was included in a contractor performance assessment report considered by the agency. 3. Protest that agency failed to consider a potential Procurement Integrity Act violation is dismissed where protester did not report the alleged violation to the procuring agency within 14 days of when the protester first became aware of it. 4. Protest that agency failed to consider whether awardee's price was unbalanced is denied where agency determined that awardee's low proposed prices for certain line items did not present an unacceptable risk to the government. 5. Protest that agency made an unreasonable best-value tradeoff is denied where agency considered that awardee's superior past performance was worth the price premium.

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