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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: DeLeon Technical Services, Inc.

          File:       B-293783

          Date:       June 4, 2004

          Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, for the protester.
          Richard B. Oliver, Esq., McKenna, Long & Aldridge, for T Square Logistics Services
          Corporation, an intervenor.
          Lt. Col. David L. Bell and Michele T. Lacey, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the
          agency.
          Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest of agency's evaluation of past performance and source selection decision is
          denied where record shows that the evaluation and award decision were reasonable,
          consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and in accordance with applicable
          procurement rules.
          DECISION

          DeLeon Technical Services, Inc. protests the award of a contract to T Square
          Logistics Services Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F41636-02-R-
          0045, issued as a small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force for
          vehicle operations and maintenance at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), Texas.
          DeLeon challenges the agency's evaluation of the offerors' past performance and the
          decision to award the contract to a lower-priced offeror; the protester believes that it
          has more relevant past performance experience than the awardee, and that the
          agency should have considered that in making its source selection.

          We deny the protest.

          The RFP, issued on December 16, 2002, contemplated the award of a fixed-price
          requirements contract for a base period and 4 option years. Offerors were advised
          that the agency would make a best value award decision using a performance/price
          trade-off (PPT). Under the RFP's PPT procedures, technically acceptable proposals
          would be evaluated for the quality of the firms' past performance, in order to assess
          performance confidence. RFP at 55-56. Past performance was to be evaluated based

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