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B-293801.2 1 (2004-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapmh0001 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: American Artisan Productions, Inc. File: B-293801.2 Date: June 7, 2004 Arthur L. Friedman for the protester. Sherry K. Kaswell, Esq., and Alton E. Woods, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's quotation is denied where record shows that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION American Artisan Productions, Inc. (AAP) protests the issuance of a purchase order to Insight Exhibits under request for quotations (RFQ) No. JSQ044023, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to design and construct a complete interpretive exhibit at a dinosaur quarry. AAP maintains that the agency misevaluated its quotation. We deny the protest. The RFQ identified the procurement as a commercial item acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 and provided that the agency would use simplified acquisition procedures contained in FAR Part 13. The selected vendor was to design, fabricate, ship, and install interior and exterior exhibits at the BLM Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry located in Utah. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a fixed-price purchase order for these services to the vendor whose quotation was considered most advantageous to the government, price and other factors (technical performance and past performance) considered. Under the evaluation scheme, the technical performance and past performance factors, when combined, were significantly more important than price.

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