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B-285283.2 1 (2001-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Green Valley Transportation, Inc. File: B-285283.2 Date: April 16, 2001 Raighne C. Delaney, Esq., and Leo S. Fisher, Esq., Bean, Kinney, & Korman, for the protester. Capt. Ryan Zipf, and Col. Michael R. Neds, Department of the Army, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated proposals with respect to past performance is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria; mere disagreement with the agency's evaluation is insufficient to show it was unreasonable. DECISION Green Valley Transportation, Inc. protests awards made under request for proposals (RFP) No. JD-5252-SH, issued by the Department of the Army, Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC), for guaranteed traffic (GT) freight transportation. Green Valley argues that the agency improperly evaluated proposals with respect to past performance. We deny the protest. The GT program is a transportation management tool under which MTMC issues a request for rate tenders for all the traffic for particular routes for a specific period of time and awards what are, in effect, requirements contracts to the successful carriers. Allstates Air Cargo, Inc., B-261266, B-261266.2, Feb. 29, 1996, 96-1 CPD 138 at 2 n.3. This solicitation concerns the movement of freight traffic from the Defense Distribution Depot in San Joaquin, California (DDJC) to various destinations within the United States. The procurement of these services has been the subject of prior protests. MTMC initially solicited for these requirements in 1999. In response to a post-award protest by another carrier, MTMC terminated all awards and resolicited for the

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