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B-290846.3 1 (2002-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States 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: Martin Electronics, Inc. File: B-290846.3; B-290846.4 Date: December 23, 2002 James J. McCullough, Esq., Louis D. Victorino, Esq., and Steven A. Alerding, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Esq., Vera Meza, Esq., and Bradley J. Crosson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where agency conducted exchanges with offerors in a manner that favored one over the other and where, in evaluating awardee's past performance, agency failed to include consideration of negative past performance information that occurred within the period defined by the solicitation as recent contract performance. DECISION Martin Electronics, Inc. (MEI) protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Pyrotechnic Specialties, Inc. (PSI) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAA09-01-R-0162 to provide M49A1 surface trip flares.' MEI protests, among other things, that the agency failed to properly evaluate the offerors' past performance information and failed to conduct meaningful discussions. We sustain the protest. 1 The agency describes the M49A1 flare as a booby-trap type of surface flare used to illuminate infiltrating enemy troops. Agency Report, Contracting Officer's Statement at 1.

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