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B-417494.3 1 (2020-08-07)

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GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                         1been approved for public release.


Matter of:  Noble Supply & Logistics, Inc.

File:       B-417494.3

Date:       August 7, 2020

Gary J. Campbell, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., and Lidiya Kurin, Esq., Womble Bond
Dickinson (US) LLP, for the protester.
Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Lawrence M. Anderson, Esq., and Frank Minogue, Esq.,
Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of offerors' past performance is denied
where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonably based and not disparate.
DECISION

Noble Supply and Logistics, Inc. (Noble), a small business of Rockland, Massachusetts,
protests the award of a contract to CC Distributors, Inc. (CCD), the incumbent, of
Corpus Christi, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA441919RA003, issued
by the Department of the Air Force. The Air Force awarded the contract to support a
contractor operated civil engineer supply store (COCESS) located on Altus Air Force
Base, Oklahoma. Noble argues that the agency's past performance evaluation was
unreasonable.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On March 26, 2019, the agency issued the RFP in accordance with Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) part 12, acquisition of commercial items, and FAR part 15, contracting
by negotiation. Agency Report (AR), Tab 6, RFP at 1, 109. Under this effort, the
contractor would provide a simplified method for customers to purchase quality
materials, tools, and equipment to be used for work tasks, construction, recurring

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