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B-418339 1 (2020-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeavb0001 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Dec ision been approved for public release. Matter of: AAR Manufacturing Inc., d/b/a AAR Mobility Systems File: B-418339 Date: March 17, 2020 Paul R. Hurst, Esq., Michael J. Navarre, Esq., and Caitlin T. Conroy, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, for the protester. Anthony H. Anikeeff, Esq., and Stephen H. Swart, Esq., Williams Mullen, for Taber Extrusions, LLC, the intervenor. Captain Seiji Ohashi, Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Major Darren S. Gilkes, and Charles R. Epperson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to a prospective offeror's organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated whether the prospective offeror had an improper ability to shape the ground rules for the procurement, or unequal access to information, or impaired objectivity to perform the required effort, and where the protester's assertions fail to present hard facts indicating the existence of an impermissible conflict. 2. Protest challenging solicitation's past performance evaluation rating scheme as unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the agency provides a rational explanation for its requirements and demonstrates that they reasonably relate to the agency's actual needs. DECISION AAR Manufacturing Inc., d/b/a AAR Mobility Systems (AAR), of Cadillac, Michigan, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8534-19-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the supply of Next Generation (Next-Gen) air cargo pallets. AAR argues that a potential competitor, Taber Extrusions, LLC, of Russellville, Arkansas, has organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) that are unmitigatable and that the RFP's past performance evaluation criterion is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest.

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