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B-282776 1 (1999-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: U.S. Constructors, Inc. File: B-282776 Date: July 21, 1999 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Law Office of Theodore M. Bailey, for the protester. Lee W. Crook, III, Esq., General Services Administration, 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 Where the solicitation provided for award on the basis of initial proposals without conducting discussions and expressly required offerors to furnish with their initial proposals three completed past performance reference questionnaires, agency reasonably determined not to communicate with the protester regarding its performance history where the protester failed to provide completed questionnaires in its initial proposal. DECISION U.S. Constructors, Inc. (USC) protests the award of a contract to Dover Elevator Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. GS-07P-99-UWC-0005, issued by the General Services Administration for elevator modernization at the Federal Building/Courthouse, Tyler, Texas. USC challenges the agency's decision not to communicate with it concerning its performance history. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government, technical evaluation factors and price considered. RFP at 1. The RFP included the following technical evaluation factors: (1) experience and past performance; (2) number of similar/comparable projects completed; (3) quality of references; and (4) percentage of work to be performed by offeror. Id. at 5-6. The experience and past performance factor was weighted at 40 percent and the other three factors were each weighted at 20 percent. Each technical evaluation factor could receive a maximum raw score of 7 points, which then would be multiplied by the assigned factor weight. Under this evaluation

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