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B-287030 1 (2001-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Boland Well Systems, Inc. File: B-287030 Date: March 7, 2001 Paul Boland for the protester. Lt. Col. Joseph V. Treanor, III, and Capt. Brian Varn, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rated protester's past performance as neutral with unknown confidence where record shows that protester failed to submit in its proposal required detailed information showing that it had performed contracts relevant to the solicited effort. DECISION Boland Well Systems, Inc. protests the award of a contract to International Research and Development, Inc. (IRD) under request for proposals (RFP) No. F24604-01-D- 0004, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the replacement of livestock gates at the Malmstrom Air Force Base missile complex in Montana. Boland asserts that the Air Force did not properly consider its past performance. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract based on a performance/price tradeoff (PPT) technique. RFP § M-2(a). Consistent with this technique, the RFP provided that all offerors considered for award would receive a performance risk assessment of exceptional/high confidence, very good/significant confidence, satisfactory/confidence, neutral/unknown confidence, marginal/little confidence, or unsatisfactory/no confidence. The RFP stated that the purpose of the performance risk assessment was to identify and review relevant present and past performance and then make an overall risk assessment of an offeror's ability to perform the effort. The agency reserved the right to award a contract to other than the offeror submitting the lowest evaluated price and to award to a higher priced

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