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B-288271.5 1 (2002-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobd0001 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 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: MCS of Tampa, Inc. File: B-288271.5 Date: February 8, 2002 Joan K. Fiorino, Esq., Valinda J. Astoria, Esq., and John C. Dulske, Esq., Thurman & Phillips, for the protester. Donald C. Mobly, Esq., and Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably assigned the protester's past performance a neutral rating where the reference listed by the protester for the only contract considered relevant to the solicited work declined to respond to the past performance questionnaire, despite repeated requests by the agency. 2. Agency's determination to not consider the past performance of the protester's proposed subcontractor was reasonable where the subcontractor's performance under the solicited work was not major or critical to the overall effort and thus not reasonably indicative of the protester's performance under the contract. DECISION MCS of Tampa, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Altech Services, Inc. by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. F34608-01-R- 0002, to provide operation and maintenance services for the base telecommunications system at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued January 26, 2001 as a competitive section 8(a) set-aside, provided for the award of a fixed-price contract for a base period with four 1-year options. The successful contractor is required to provide all personnel, equipment, material, and tools to operate and maintain the base telecommunications system at Ellsworth Air Force Base, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This includes operations and

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