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B-295877 1 (2005-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: BTC Contract Services, Inc. File: B-295877 Date: May 11, 2005 Benjamin N. Thompson, Esq., and Jennifer M. Miller, Esq., Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, for the protester. Michael A. Gordon, Esq., and Fran Baskin, Esq., Holmes & Gordon, for Joppa Maintenance Company, an intervenor. Maj. Rebecca R. Vernon, and Capt. Paul E. Cronin, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where agency record provides reasonable basis for selecting the higher-priced proposal because of awardee's more favorable past performance evaluation. DECISION BTC Contract Services, Inc., a small business, protests the award of a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4418-04-R-0007, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for grounds maintenance and sprinkler/irrigation maintenance services at Charleston Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina. BTC objects that the agency's evaluation of past performance was unreasonable and, as a consequence, the source selection decision to award to Joppa Maintenance Company, the incumbent contractor, whose proposal was higher-priced and higher-rated, was unreasonable. We deny the protest. The procurement was conducted as a commercial item acquisition under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, and was a total set-aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone small businesses. RFP at 1. The RFP sought fixed- price proposals to furnish services for a base period of 8 months and four 1-year option periods. RFP amend. 23. The RFP provided that the award would be based on the evaluation of past performance and price, with past performance being considered significantly more important than price. RFP at 22-23.

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