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oComptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Matter of: U.S. Technology Corporation
File: B-278584
Date: February 17, 1998
Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath III, Esq., and Frank K Peterson, Esq.,
Holland & Knight L.L.P., for the protester.
G. Alan Perkins, Esq., and Matthew H.P. Warner, Esq., Hill Gilstrap Perkins &
Warner, for Composite Leasing Corporation, an intervenor.
Lori S. Chofnas, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of awardee's past performance is denied
where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation.
2. Award in best value procurement to firm whose lower-price proposal was rated
lower than protester's proposal for past performance is unobjectionable, despite
solicitation provision that past performance was to be considered more important
than price, where solicitation did not provide for award on the basis of highest past
performance rating, and agency reasonably concluded that paying the approximate
[deleted]-percent price premium for the protester's higher-rated past performance
was not warranted in light of the satisfactory past performance of the awardee and
the awardee's substantially lower-proposed price.
DECISION
U.S. Technology Corporation (UST) protests the award of a contract to Composite
Leasing Corporation (CLC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00140-97-R-1472,
issued by the Department of the Navy, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center--Norfolk,
Detachment Philadelphia, on behalf of the Naval Aviation Depot, Cherry Point,
North Carolina, for the lease and recycling of plastic media blasting mesh, and the
recycling of abrasive glass bead dust products, used in the removal of paint from
Navy aircraft. UST, the incumbent contractor, protests the propriety of the agency's
evaluation of the awardee's past performance, and the source selection authority's](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptahpe0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)