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B-280573.2 1 (1998-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahwd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Environmental Tectonics Corporation File: B-280573.2 Date: December 1, 1998 Cliff G. Russell, Esq., for the protester. John A. Evans, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably assigned a high risk rating to the protester, the low-priced vendor, for past performance and reasonably made a price/past performance tradeoff resulting in the issuance of a purchase order to a higher-priced vendor with a higher past performance rating where the agency determined that it was worth paying a price premium to a firm with a superior past performance history and a minimal performance risk. DECISION Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) protests the issuance of a purchase order to USA Models, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N61339-98-Q- 2010, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Department of the Navy, for acrylic replacement windows for hypobaric low pressure chambers.1 ETC challenges the agency's evaluation of its past performance and the agency's decision to issue a purchase order to a higher-priced vendor. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued in April 1998 as a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items, provided that the agency intended to issue a purchase order to the 1The acrylic windows, which represent a safety upgrade, will replace existing glass windows which may implode into the chambers when internal pressures are lowered, causing injury or death to government personnel. The window replacement has been ranked a top priority modification for aviation physiology trainers. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1; Source Selection Decision (SSD), Sept. 4, 1998, at 1.

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