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B-289592 1 (2002-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodj0001 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: Chicataw Construction, Inc. File: B-289592; B-289592.2 Date: March 20, 2002 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Joel David Malkin, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to the evaluation of its past performance is denied where the record shows that the agency made reasonable efforts to contact the required minimum of three past performance references, and ultimately used a neutral rating for the reference it was unable to reach. 2. Agency's post-protest recalculation of the protester's past performance score, and corresponding redetermination that the awardee's proposal still represents the best value to the government, will be considered where the reevaluation is limited in scope, primarily involves a straightforward recalculation with little room for subjective judgment, and there is nothing in the record to support a conclusion that the resulting increase in the protester's score would materially alter the agency's selection decision. DECISION Chicataw Construction, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Hammond Corporation by the General Services Administration (GSA), pursuant to solicitation No. GS05PO1GAC0174, issued to procure a chiller/cooling tower replacement for the Federal Building in Akron, Ohio. Chicataw argues that the agency's evaluation of past performance was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation here was issued on September 14, 2001, and anticipated award of a fixed-price contract for the demolition and removal of existing chiller and cooling

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